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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
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