http://asymptotia.com/2008/01/15/alan-alda-chats-with-kc-cole/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:01:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://asymptotia.com/2008/01/15/alan-alda-chats-with-kc-cole/#comment-105379 Put Yourself In Their Shoes - Asymptotia Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:56:44 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2008/01/15/alan-alda-chats-with-kc-cole/#comment-105379 [...] Excellent evening on Wednesday night. As I expected, KC worked her magic and steered the conversation in many interesting directions, with Alan Alda turning out to be - not unexpectedly - quite the character. I suspect that it was recorded (on video) and so I will update this post or do a later post with a pointer to it later. Alda was swamped by people buying his book and getting is signed and so forth at the reception. It was great to see such a good attendance at this Visions and Voices event all about science and the arts - very much in the spirit of what this is all supposed to be about. [...] [...] Excellent evening on Wednesday night. As I expected, KC worked her magic and steered the conversation in many interesting directions, with Alan Alda turning out to be - not unexpectedly - quite the character. I suspect that it was recorded (on video) and so I will update this post or do a later post with a pointer to it later. Alda was swamped by people buying his book and getting is signed and so forth at the reception. It was great to see such a good attendance at this Visions and Voices event all about science and the arts - very much in the spirit of what this is all supposed to be about. [...]

]]> http://asymptotia.com/2008/01/15/alan-alda-chats-with-kc-cole/#comment-104955 Show the Love | Cosmic Variance Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:10:46 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2008/01/15/alan-alda-chats-with-kc-cole/#comment-104955 [...] Yesterday we went to see a chat with Alan Alda and KC Cole at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, as advertised by Clifford here. Alda was apparently some kind of TV actor back in the day, but he is also quite the science aficionado — hosting Scientific American Frontiers on PBS, and originating the role of Richard Feynman in Peter Parnell’s play QED. [...] [...] Yesterday we went to see a chat with Alan Alda and KC Cole at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, as advertised by Clifford here. Alda was apparently some kind of TV actor back in the day, but he is also quite the science aficionado — hosting Scientific American Frontiers on PBS, and originating the role of Richard Feynman in Peter Parnell’s play QED. [...]

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