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Strange Bedfellows
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The New Origins Project Presents:
Strange Bedfellows:
Culture, Meet Science/Science, Meet Culture
This series will bring together cultural icons, celebrities, movie stars, directors, writers and musicians with famous scientists to talk about commonalities and differences. Each segment will be moderated by scientist/author/provocateur Lawrence Krauss, who has spent much of his career successfully crossing the chasm separating science and culture. When at Arizona State University, the Origins Project he created and led for a decade there produced singular events in which over 3000 people would regularly attend live, and up to 500,000 people would watch the recorded events to hear dialogues and panels, to be entertained and informed.
First Season (Proposed—23 participants have already agreed in principle)
1. Johnny Depp, Courtney Love, Marilyn Manson talk creativity in music versus creativity in Science with Nobel Laureates Frank Wilczek and Yuval Hoffman.
2. Woody Allen talks about the human condition with Linguist Noam Chomsky.
3. Ricky Gervais and Astronomer Royale, former President of the Royal Society, Martin Rees.
4. Sarah Silverman and Nobel Prizewinning economist Paul Krugman.
5. William Shatner and Nobel Prize winning physicists Kip Thorne/ Steve Weinberg or Elon Musk.
6. Director Werner Herzog, Cormac McCarthy, with biologist Svante Paabo.
7. Ian McEwan and Nobel Laureate Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn.
8. Barack Obama and psychologist Steven Pinker.
9. Director Alex Garland and IT computer scientist Eric Horvitz/Larry Page
10. Actor Bill Pullman, Magician Penn Jillette and Nobel Prizewinning economist/psychologist Danny Kahneman.
11. Actor/writer Stephen Fry and Psychologist Robert Sapolsky
12. Actress Andie Macdowell and Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins
The series will bring together Kr
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