Anil Ananthaswamy

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Saturday, February 7th, 2015

 

NCBS announces its 5th annual science journalism workshop, which will be held on campus from June 8 to June 20, 2015.The workshop’s main objective is to impart the basic skills necessary for communicating science to the lay person via the written word.

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
"I can't get the memories out of my mind!... I am right back in Vietnam, in the middle of the monsoon season at my guard post. My hands are freezing, yet sweat pours from my entire body...I smell a damp sulfur smell.
Saturday, April 12th, 2014

NCBS announces its 4th annual science journalism workshop, which will be held on campus from July 23 to August 7, 2014.

Friday, March 22nd, 2013
NCBS announces its 3rd annual science journalism workshop, which will be held on campus from July 10 to July 26, 2013.
Monday, May 14th, 2012

NCBS announces its 2nd annual science journalism workshop, which will be held on campus from July 11 to July 27, 2012.

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

In his book The First Three Minutes, particle physicist and Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg wrote, "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. ... The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts a human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."

Physicists are often confronted by the apparent meaninglessness of the universe, or at least the lack of any meaning that can be discerned by science. In this context, Weinberg argued that science itself gave meaning to one's life. In an interview with PBS, Weinberg would add, "There is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art."

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