Event
Being Ridiculous: Finding the Humor in Science
A conversation with Mary Roach and Randall Munroe. Webcast begins at 6:30 p.m. EST.
October 13, 2016
6:00pm
Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
7th Floor Commons
20 Cooper Square, NY
Kavli Conversations are hosted by NYU’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program with support from the Kavli Foundation. Webcast will begin at 6:30pm.
Speakers
Mary Roach is the bestselling author of six books, including Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and most recently Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War.
Randall Munroe is the creator of the wildly popular xkcd webcomic. A former NASA roboticist, his most recent bestseller is Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words.
Moderator
One of America’s most respected science journalists, Robert Lee Hotz is a science writer at the Wall Street Journal and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Carter Institute of Journalism at NYU. He is the president of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, which funds independent journalism projects around the world, and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.