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  The Moth and The World Science Festival Present Toil and Trouble: Stories of Experiments Gone Wrong

Throwing a uniquely personal and intimate spotlight on their relationship with science, renowned researchers, writers, and artists take to the stage to tell stories about heroic failures, miscalculations and experiments — scientific and otherwise — gone wrong.

Featuring stories by:
Nathan Englander, author of The Ministry of Special Cases and For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Jim Gates, Toll Professor of Physics and Director, Center for String and Particle Theory, University of Maryland
Lucy Hawking, journalist and author of George's Secret Key to the Universe (co-written with her father, Dr. Stephen Hawking)
Sam Shepard, Oscar-nominated actor, screenwriter, director, and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Michael Turner, theoretical cosmologist who coined the term “dark energy,” and Chairman of the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Chicago

Venue: Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
Tickets: $35

Tickets are no longer available for this event.

Past Showdate: Thursday, May 29, 2008


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