The inaugral World Science Festival is being held in NYC this week(end) and I’m really happy to see the event getting tremendous support from New Yorkers and others that came to the city just for the event.  I was fortunate enough to catch the Richard Leakey give a talk at Columbia and then I went to the street fair near NYU today.  I was being lazy and forgot to buy tickets to a couple of events that I thought were interesting - I had the schedule of events for more than a week and procrastinated.  Oh well.

But coming back to the participation - I’ve seen a crapload of people showing up to all these events and I think that’s terrific.  All the events with simple science experiments got all the kids excited and there were plenty of lectures for the grown-ups.  It’s science, bitches, and it works.