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Wonderfest 2010

The San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science
November 6 & 7

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Crowds enjoyed mind-expanding Wonderfest 2009 at Stanford and UC Berkeley.

Wonderfest 2010 will take place at Stanford’s Hewlett Teaching Center on Saturday, Nov. 6,
and at Cal’s Stanley Hall on Sunday, Nov. 7.

Confirmed dialogues include:

Will Synthetic Biology Replace Industrial Chemistry?
Paul Berg, Nobel Laureate & Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford
Richard Zare , Priestley Medal Winner & Professor of Chemistry, Stanford

Does Time Have Secret Power in Our Lives?
Jane McGonigal, Director of Game R&D, Institute for the Future, Palo Alto
Philip Zimbardo , Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Stanford

Dare We Try To Engineer Earth’s Climate?
Julio Friedmann, Carbon Management Program Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Dan Kammen, Professor of Energy Resources & of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Dialogues still in the planning stages concern computer power, cosmic math,
climate engineering, and consciousness.  We have the C’s covered in 2010!

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