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ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.
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Abyssinian Baptist Church
The Abyssinian Baptist Church, located at 132 West 138th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Lenox Avenue in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1922–23 and was designed by Charles W. Bolton & Son in Gothic Revival and Tudor Revival styles – it has also been described as "Collegiate Gothic".
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Alan Alda
Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is an American philanthropic nonprofit organization.
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American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world.
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Animatronics
Animatronics refers to the use of robotic devices to emulate a human or an animal, or bring lifelike characteristics to an otherwise inanimate object.
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Anthony LaPaglia
Anthony M. LaPaglia (born 31 January 1959) is an Australian actor.
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Antonio Damasio
Antonio Damasio (António Damásio) is a Portuguese-American neuroscientist.
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Ars Technica
Ars Technica (a Latin-derived term that the site translates as the "art of technology") is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.
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Arthur T. Benjamin
Arthur T. Benjamin (born March 19, 1961) is an American mathematician who specializes in combinatorics.
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Bill T. Jones
Bill T. Jones (born February 15, 1952) is an American choreographer, director, author and dancer.
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Brevin Knight
Brevin Adon Knight (born November 8, 1975) is an American retired professional basketball point guard who played with nine teams in the NBA from 1997 to 2009.
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Brian Greene
Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist.
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Carbon nanotube
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure.
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Charlie Rose
Charles Peete Rose Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American television journalist and former talk show host.
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City University of New York
The City University of New York (CUNY) is the public university system of New York City, and the largest urban university system in the United States.
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Clifford the Big Red Dog
Clifford the Big Red Dog is an American children's book series about a giant red dog named Clifford.
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Columbia University
Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
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Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.
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Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is an American political scientist and diplomat.
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Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union or The Cooper Union and informally referred to, especially during the 19th century, as "the Cooper Institute", is a private college at Cooper Square on the border of the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
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Cosmology
Cosmology (from the Greek κόσμος, kosmos "world" and -λογία, -logia "study of") is the study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe.
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Crain Communications
Crain Communications Inc is an American publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan.
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Creativity
Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed.
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Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland.
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Cyberchase
Cyberchase is an American/Canadian animated educational children's television series on PBS Kids.
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Cynthia Breazeal
Cynthia Lynn Breazeal (born November 15, 1967 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group (formerly the DRobotic Life Group) at the MIT Media Laboratory.
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Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
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David Baltimore
David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
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David Eagleman
David Eagleman (born April 25, 1971) is an American writer and neuroscientist, teaching at Stanford University as an in the department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
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Donald Lynden-Bell
Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS (5 April 1935 – 6 February 2018) was a British theoretical astrophysicist.
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Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).
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F. Sherwood Rowland
Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland (June 28, 1927 – March 10, 2012) was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine.
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Fashion week
A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, wherein fashion designers, brands or "houses" display their latest collections in runway fashion shows to buyers and the media.
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Festival della Scienza
The Festival della Scienza is an annual science festival held in Genoa, Italy.
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Fireworks
Fireworks are a class of low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes.
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FIRST Robotics Competition
The FIRST Robotics Competition is an international high school robotics competition.
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Fog
Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of minute water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.
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Francis Collins
Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project.
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Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute is a science museum and the center of science education and research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Genoa
Genoa (Genova,; Zêna; English, historically, and Genua) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy.
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Good Morning America
Good Morning America (GMA) is an American morning television show that is broadcast on ABC.
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GuideStar
GuideStar USA, Inc. is an information service specializing in reporting on U.S. nonprofit companies.
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Harold E. Varmus
Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist and was the 14th Director of the National Cancer Institute, a post to which he was appointed by President Barack Obama, and before that was director of the National Institutes of Health from 1993 to 1999.
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Holocene extinction
The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the Sixth extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is the ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch, mainly as a result of human activity.
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Hugh Everett III
Hugh Everett III (November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics, which he termed his "relative state" formulation.
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Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of nucleotide base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint.
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Ira Flatow
Ira Flatow (born March 9, 1949) is a radio and television journalist and author who hosts Public Radio International's popular program, Science Friday.
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It's a Big Big World
It's a Big Big World is an American children's television show on PBS Kids, that debuted December 31, 2005.
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John Sexton
John Edward Sexton (born September 29, 1942) is an American lawyer and academic.
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John Templeton Foundation
The John Templeton Foundation (Templeton Foundation) is a philanthropic organization with a spiritual or religious inclination that funds inter-disciplinary research about human purpose and ultimate reality.
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Karole Armitage
Karole Armitage (born March 3, 1954) is an American dancer and choreographer currently based in New York City.
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Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, and director of its Origins Project.
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Lee Bollinger
Lee Carroll Bollinger (born April 30, 1946) is an American lawyer and educator who is serving as the 19th president of Columbia University.
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Leilani Mitchell
Leilani Seamah Mitchell (born June 15, 1985) is an American-Australian professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
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Leon M. Lederman
Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an American experimental physicist who received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982, along with Martin Lewis Perl, for their research on quarks and leptons, and the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for their research on neutrinos.
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Liberty Science Center
Liberty Science Center is an interactive science museum and learning center located in Liberty State Park in Jersey City in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.
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Lisa Willis
Lisa Camille Willis (born June 13, 1984) was an American professional women's basketball player with the Los Angeles Sparks and New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association.
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Live with Kelly and Ryan
Live with Kelly and Ryan is an American syndicated morning talk show, hosted by Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest.
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Louis E. Brus
Louis E. Brus is the S. L. Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University.
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Lucky the Dinosaur
Lucky the Dinosaur is an approximately green Segnosaurus free roaming audio animatronics figure which pulls a flower-covered cart and is led by "Chandler the Dinosaur Handler".
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Lucy Hawking
Catherine Lucy Hawking (born 2 November 1970) is an English journalist, novelist, educator, and philanthropist.
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Maarten Schmidt
Maarten Schmidt (born December 28, 1929) is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of quasars.
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Mark Oliver Everett
Mark Oliver Everett (born April 10, 1963) is the American lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist and sometime drummer of the rock band Eels.
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Marvin Minsky
Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts concerning AI and philosophy.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.
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Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born on February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, engineer, author, politician, and philanthropist.
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Michael York
Michael York, OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; 27 March 1942) is an English actor.
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Miller Theatre
Miller Theatre at Columbia University is located on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University.
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Motion capture
Motion capture (Mo-cap for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people.
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MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.
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Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
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Nancy Coover Andreasen
Nancy Coover Andreasen is an American neuroscientist and neuropsychiatrist.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
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Neural circuit
A neural circuit, is a population of neurons interconnected by synapses to carry out a specific function when activated.
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New York City Police Department
The City of New York Police Department, commonly known as the NYPD, is the primary law enforcement and investigation agency within the five boroughs of New York City.
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New York Post
The New York Post is the fourth-largest newspaper in the United States and a leading digital media publisher that reached more than 57 million unique visitors in the U.S. in January 2017.
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New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.
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Nightline
Nightline (or ABC News Nightline) is ABC News' late-night news program broadcast on ABC in the United States with a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world.
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Nikolas Rose
Nikolas Rose (born 1947) is a prominent British sociologist and social theorist.
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Nina Fedoroff
Nina Vsevolod Fedoroff (born 1942) is an American molecular biologist known for her research in life sciences and biotechnology, especially transposable elements or jumping genes.
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Nonprofit organization
A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.
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Oliver Sacks
Oliver Wolf Sacks, (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and author.
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Oslo
Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.
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Pasko Rakic
Pasko Rakic (Paško Rakić) is a Yugoslav-born American neuroscientist, who presently works in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Patricia Churchland
Patricia Smith Churchland (born July 16, 1943) is a Canadian-American analytical philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind.
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Paul Nurse
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949), is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute.
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Pellet (ornithology)
A pellet, in ornithology, is the mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate.
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Personal genomics
Personal genomics or consumer genetics is the branch of genomics concerned with the sequencing, analysis and interpretation of the genome of an individual.
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Peter Parnell
Peter Parnell (born 1953) is an American Broadway and Off-Broadway playwright, television writer, and children's book author.
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QED (play)
QED is a play by American playwright Peter Parnell that chronicles significant events in the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
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Quantum dot
Quantum dots (QD) are very small semiconductor particles, only several nanometres in size, so small that their optical and electronic properties differ from those of larger particles.
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Quasar
A quasar (also known as a QSO or quasi-stellar object) is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN).
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Ray Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a private research university and space-grant institution located in Troy, New York, with two additional campuses in Hartford and Groton, Connecticut.
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Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model.
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Richard Leakey
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey FRS (born 19 December 1944) is a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician.
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Robert Krulwich
Robert Louis Krulwich is an American radio and television journalist who currently serves as a science correspondent for NPR and is a co-host of the program Radiolab.
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Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
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Rockefeller University
The Rockefeller University is a center for scientific research, primarily in the biological and medical sciences, that provides doctoral and postdoctoral education.
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Roller coaster
A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride that employs a form of elevated railroad track designed with tight turns, steep slopes, and sometimes inversions.
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Sam Shepard
Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017), known professionally as Sam Shepard, was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose body of work spanned half a century.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Science (TV network)
Science Channel (often referred to as simply Science) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by Discovery Inc. The channel features programming focusing on the fields of wilderness survival, ufology, manufacturing, construction, technology, space, prehistory and animal science.
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Science festival
A science festival is a festival that showcases science and technology with the same freshness and flair that would be expected from an arts or music festival.
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Science News
Science News is an American bi-weekly magazine devoted to short articles about new scientific and technical developments, typically gleaned from recent scientific and technical journals.
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Scientific American
Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine.
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Scott Draves
Scott Draves is the inventor of Fractal Flames and the leader of the distributed computing project Electric Sheep.
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Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and the eighteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Simons Foundation
The Simons Foundation is a private foundation established in 1994 by Marilyn and James Harris Simons with offices in New York City.
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Simulcast
Simulcast, a portmanteau of simultaneous broadcast, is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously).
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
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Sten Grillner
Sten Grillner (born 14 June 1941, Stockholm) is a Swedish neurophysiologist and distinguished professor at the Karolinska Institute's Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology in Stockholm where he is the director of the institute.
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String theory
In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings.
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SuChin Pak
SuChin Pak (박수진, born August 15, 1976) is a South Korean-born American television news correspondent, frequently appearing on the cable networks of MTV.
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Sumio Iijima
Sumio Iijima (飯島 澄男 Iijima Sumio, born May 2, 1939) is a Japanese physicist, often cited as the inventor of carbon nanotubes.
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Sylvester James Gates
Sylvester James Gates Jr. (born December 15, 1950), known as S. James Gates the 6th or Jim Gates, is an American theoretical physicist who works on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory.
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The Colbert Report
The Colbert Report is an American late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by Stephen Colbert that aired four days a week on Comedy Central from October 17, 2005 to December 18, 2014 for 1,447 episodes.
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The Elegant Universe
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory is a book by Brian Greene published in 1999, which introduces string and superstring theory, and provides a comprehensive though non-technical assessment of the theory and some of its shortcomings.
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The Magic School Bus
The Magic School Bus is an American edutainment media franchise that consists of a book series, a TV series, and several video games, among other things.
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The Moth
The Moth is a non-profit group based in New York City dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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The Zula Patrol
The Zula Patrol is an animated television series distributed by American Public Television to PBS stations in the United States.
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Thomas Jessell
Thomas Michael Jessell (born 2 August 1951 in London) was the Claire Tow Professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Columbia University in New York.
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Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.
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Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.
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USA Today
USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.
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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran (born 10 August 1951) is a neuroscientist known primarily for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics.
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Walt Disney Imagineering
Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development, Inc. is the research and development arm of The Walt Disney Company, responsible for the creation, design, and construction of Disney theme parks and attractions worldwide.
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Washington Square Park
Washington Square Park is a public park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City.
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William Daniel Phillips
William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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World Science Festival
The World Science Festival is an annual science festival produced by the World Science Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in New York City.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.
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Redirects here:
Science Festival Foundation, World Science Summit.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Science_Festival,_2008
