Is science separate from society?
3,134 views · Published 4 October 2016 · 2:29 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: World Science Festival · 2016 · Science & Technology
How do you get a toilet to flush in zero gravity? Any engineer trying to solve this problem would clearly need to think creatively, and yet the stereotype that scientists aren't creative stubbornly persists. At the 2016 World Science Festival, authors Jennifer Ackerman and Mary Roach discussed the strange silo in which science mistakenly finds itself and the reality that science is all around us. Watch the full program here: https://youtu.be/g2x4zix0xPk Original Program Date: June 4, 2016 MODERATOR: John Hockenberry PARTICIPANTS: Jennifer Ackerman, Maria Konnikova, Janna Levin, Mary Roach Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldsciencefestival Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldSciFest
