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This isn’t just a science fair filled with paper mache volcanoes and boring poster presentations—there’s actually new stuff here to discuss. Scientific minds from all over the globe will convene to chat about art, theater, film, and of course how it all relates to science.

There are events all over the city from lecture halls to art museums, so every type of science fetish can be explored. Maybe they’ll even run some analysis on why the the 787 is taking so long to start testing, or how to develop the perfect travel charger.

The festival was thought up by Columbia professor Brian Greene and journalist Tracy Day, and in 2009, it's supposed to draw even more than the 120,000 people that checked it out last year. If you’re a smarty pants, you’ll be quickly put into your place—there’s going to 130 really smart people presenting—and dozen of them are Nobel laureates. Together, all these minds hope to look at some of our current issues like climate change, and maybe if they have a couple extra minutes, the economic “situation.”

Things are still in the planning stages as to what will be where and what not, but if even some of the 2008 schedule is replicated (Science of Disney Imagineering and Future Cities: Sustainable Solutions, Radical Designs) we’ll be more than happy to attend.

Oh, and if you’re looking for celebrities, Alan Alda will be there. Go ahead and try to make a joke about the 4077—we dare you.

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