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Apr. 08, 2011
Connecting Science and Art
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| Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog, and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration for art and Herzog’s new film on the earliest known cave paintings. |
Produced by Katherine Wells
Guests
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Cormac McCarthy
Novelist
Author: “The Road” (2006), “No Country for Old Men" (2005), “All the Pretty Horses” (1992), “Blood Meridian” (1985)
Tempe, Arizona -
Werner Herzog
Filmmaker
Director, “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” (Creative Differences, 2010), “Encounters at the End of the World” (2007), “Grizzly Man” (2005), “Fitzcarraldo” (1982)
Tempe, Arizona -
Lawrence Krauss
Author "Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science," (W.W. Norton and Company, 2011)
Foundation Professor
Director, The ASU Origins Project
Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative
Associate Director, Beyond Center
Arizona State University
Tempe, A
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