The World Science Festival Comes Back to Town

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 1, 2016

The World Science Festival is back in town!

Brian Greene, co-founder of the festival and professor of mathematics & physics at Columbia University, and Sylvia Earle, oceanographer, explorer, former chief scientist of NOAA, and National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence, talk about this year's line-up of events.

→ Check out this year's events: See details for all of the World Science Festival's offerings, from June 1st to June 5th.

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