Science

The "Faith and Science" event was so popular that World Science Festival had to move it to a larger venue. NYU’s Kimmel Center played host to a provocative discussion on the relationship between faith and science, two seemingly intractable opposites. Or, are they actually two sides of the same coin? While much of New York City melted in balmy weather, the esteemed panelists on stage were cool in the assessments of their own passions and crafts. Faith, it seems, is what both science and religion have in common.

Friday was a cloudy night but that didn’t stop astronomy fans, young and old, from checking out the model of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, another attraction at World Science Festival. The night before, at Our Genome Ourselves, I received a tip that the JWST looked “really cool” at night. And it did. But that wasn’t the best part of this free and family friendly event.