Since 2008, the World Science Foundation has sponsored the World Science Festival, a series of lectures, panel discussions, performances, and debates that aims to "produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries." The Festival has featured a diverse collection of guests, including Anna Deavere Smith, Philip Glass, Stephen Hawking, and Oliver Sacks. On this website, visitors can check out dozens of videos created through this project. Many videos take the form of ninety-minute panel discussions, allowing visitors to hear multiple perspectives on a range of engaging issues. For example, the most recent video features a geneticist, a synthetic biologist, an ethicist, and a philosopher/bioethicist in conversation about the ethics of altering the humane genome. Another recent panel features actors, directors, and writers discussing the process of capturing important scientists and scientific discoveries in film and on stage. Visitors can watch most recent videos directly from this website, while the complete archive of World Science Festival videos is available on the organization's YouTube page.
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