The Science Network

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founded_date = 2004
founders = Roger Bingham and Terrence Sejnowski
location = La Jolla, CA, United States
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key_people = Roger Bingham, co-founder and director
Terrence Sejnowski, advisory board chair
area_served = Global
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Non-profit_slogan = More programs, more candles, more light.
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http://thesciencenetwork.org

language = English
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The Science Network (TSN) is a non-profit, web-based organization concerned with science and its impact on society. TSN Co-Founder and Director, Roger Bingham, has brought together a coalition of world-renowned scientists and media experts to create a scientific 'no spin zone', providing unfiltered discussion of science issues that intersect with social policy, free from the tyranny of the sound bite. TSN views science as a candle in the dark and is committed to enlarging the constituency of reason by making programs about science. These programs are available for viewing on The Science Network’s [http://thesciencenetwork.org/ website] .

Beyond Belief

TSN's acclaimed signature series, "Beyond Belief", is an annual meeting, which brings together a community of concerned scientists, philosophers, scholars from the humanities, and social commentators to explore the human quest for the Good Life. Speakers at these meetings have included Steven Weinberg, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Harry Kroto, Neil de Grasse Tyson, and Stuart Kauffman.

' was the first annual meeting held in 2006, followed by ' in 2007. "Beyond Belief III: Candles in the Dark" will be held on October 3-6, 2008.

The Science Studio & The Science Reader

Other key TSN programs include "The Science Studio" and "The Science Reader". "The Science Studio" is a series of entertaining and informative encounters between leading thinkers, primarily from the sciences, and TSN Director Roger Bingham. Distinguished guests include Nobel Laureates James D. Watson, Leon Lederman, Richard Axel, and Sir Harold Kroto as well as Peter Atkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Patricia Churchland, and Paul Churchland, Rodolfo Llinás, V.S. Ramachandran, and Helen Fisher. "The Science Reader" is a series of talks given by science writers about their latest books or works in progress. Authors include V.S. Ramachandran, Terrence Sejnowski, and Matt Ridley.

All Programs

2008

*Brains R Us: The Science of Educating
*Beyond Belief III: Candles in the Dark (upcoming)
*BioMarine (upcoming)
*3rd Annual Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa (upcoming)

2007

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*Waking Up to Sleep
*Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Science Summit
*2nd Annual Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa

2006

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*1st Annual Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa
*The Science Studio debut
*The Science Reader debut

2005

*California Institute for Regenerative Medicine 1st Scientific Meeting
*Preparing for the Inevitable: Bioterrorism and Emerging Infectious Diseases
*Skeptic’s Society Annual Conference: Brain, Mind and Consciousness
*The Legacy of Einstein’s Science

2004

*Stem Cells: Science, Ethics and Politics at the Crossroads

TSN Advisory Board

Terrence Sejnowski, Chair
Director, Crick-Jacobs Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Director, Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego

John Allman
Hixon Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology

Richard C. Atkinson
President Emeritus, University of California; Director Emeritus, National Science Foundation

Wendel Bailey
Former Vice President for Science and Technology, National Cable Television Association

Roger Bingham
Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego

J. Michael Bishop
Nobel Laureate; Chancellor, UC San Francisco

Colin Blakemore
Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford; Former Chief Executive, Medical Research Council

Sydney Brenner
Nobel Laureate; Distinguished Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Patricia Smith Churchland
UC President’s Professor of Philosophy, UC San Diego

Ann Druyan
Founder and CEO, Cosmos Studios

Marye Anne Fox
Chancellor, UC San Diego

Fred H. Gage
Adler Professor of Genetics, Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Former President, Society for Neuroscience

Beatrice Golomb
School of Medicine, UC San Diego

Donald Kennedy
President Emeritus, Stanford University; Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Science

Patricia King
Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics, and Public Policy, Georgetown University

Sir Harold Kroto
Nobel Laureate; Former President, Royal Society of Chemistry

E.C. Krupp
Director, Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles

Leon Lederman
Nobel Laureate; Director Emeritus, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Founder, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Professor of Science, Illinois Institute of Technology

V.S. Ramachandran
Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, UC San Diego

Sally Ride
First American woman in space; Professor of Physics, UC San Diego; President and CEO, Imaginary Lines Inc.

Reese Schonfeld
Founding CEO and President, CNN; Founding CEO and President, Food Network

Michael Shermer
Founding Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Director, the Skeptics Society

Alan Trounson
President, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Founder and Executive Vice-Chairman, Australian Stem Cell Centre

Edward Witten
Fields Medalist; Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University

Stephen Wolfram
Founder and CEO, Wolfram Research; Creator, Mathematica

Philip Yeo
Chairman of Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board, Senior Advisor on Science and Technology to the Minister for Trade and Industry, Republic of Singapore