Big Ideas Forum

This is part 1 of a 2-part series dealing with living on Mars. [Read More]

The fountain of youth is a dream that has inspired poets, has brought explorers to our coasts and has challenged science for generations. Why do we get older? Can we do anything about it? Is there a magic “cure” for aging, or is life just “a terminal disease?” [Read More]

The Day After Tomorrow – Based on several requests, we rerun this riveting, breathtaking and very humorous video tour-de-force about the rapidly approaching future. The discussions that will follow will surely be lively. [Read More]

Terms like Cell Cultivation, Stem Cells, and CRISPR-Cas9 appear more and more often in the media, but one field is so new that it is still under the radar: Synthetic biology – the science of creating “life forms” from scratch in the laboratory, including life forms that have never existed before. We will take a look at how far scientists have come and what it holds for the future… and what we might love or hate about it. [Read More]

In this recurring program, anyone who attends tonight has a 6-7 min window to present something that might have caught their attention, something they have wondered about, a book we all should know about, etc. Formal presentations with slides and videos or getting up in front of the forum are not required. The purpose is to share ideas… but mind you: 6-7 min is a lot less time than you think! [Read More]

We have heard of Watson, the computer that beat the two Jeopardy masters, Deep Blue that beat Kasparov in chess, AlphaGo that beat the Go world champion. [Read More]