IThe title “Optimism and Science” had been chosen well before the pandemic changed the contours of the historic spring science review. But the National Geographic Science Festival – forced, cause Covid-19, to move from the Auditorium to the web – did not want to give it up.
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So in its fifteenth edition, directed by Vittorio Bo and scheduled online from Monday to Sunday on the social channels and on the National Geographic and Parco della Musica website, it returns to frame the salvific role of science with over 130 events (70 dedicated to schools) and with about 160 speakers ready to demonstrate how scientific research expresses its universal character today, in a world limited by personal and geographical limitations, helping to outline a vision of the whole future other than catastrophic.
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The calendar is divided into seven macro areas (created by Musica per Roma and National Geographic with dozens of research institutions: from the National Institute of Nuclear Physics to the Italian Space Agency, from Cnr to the National Institute of Astrophysics). They are: Planet, Society and Economy, Universe and Space, Technology and Innovation, Brain and Thought, Hubs of Science, Health and Medicine. To address issues ranging from public health to global warming, from energy and economic sustainability to the cosmos and space exploration, up to the celebrations of anniversaries such as the Rodarian centenary.
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Among the guests called to meet the virtual audience there are the astronomer Sandra Savaglio and the Olympic champion Alessandra Sensini (Monday), neuroscientists Stanislas Dehaene (Thursday) and Christoph W. Korn (Saturday), the psychologists Geoffrey Beattie (Thursday) and Suzanne Segerstrom (Saturday), the mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy (Saturday) and professionals engaged in politics and social progress such as Bina venkataraman (Obama administration’s climate change and innovation expert), Anja Langenbucher (European director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Vicki Philipps of the National Geographic Society, Krithi Karanth of the Center for Wildlife Studies and the speleologist explorer Francesco Sauro (Friday).
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Finally, even in the unusual digital guise, there will be exhibitions. Between these We are heroes with photos taken by Maki Galimberti in two Lombard health facilities in the Covid-19 emergency, and women’s exhibitions A life as a scientist with the photographic portraits of Italian scientists signed by Gerald Bruneau e Women. A changing world curated by the National Geographic Society (www.ngfestivaldellescienze.com).
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November 20, 2020 | 08:10
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