AMNH Host World Science Events June 3 & 4

The American Museum of Natural History (Central Park West at 79th Street) host two events as part of the World Science Festival and the opening of a new exhibition Race to the End of the Earth. On Thursday, June 3 at 7:30pm in the Hayden Planetarium Machover, Minsky and Music in the Dome will revisit the musical experient, the Brain Opera, and ofer a sneak peak into Machover's upcoming opera.  And on Friday, June 4 at 7 PM a panel, To the End of Earth and Beyond, in the LeFrak Theater, will feature leading scientist discussing 100 years after the first historic South Pole journey. Tickets for both events are $15 for students and $30 for adults.  For more information and to purchase tickets visit http://www.amnh.org/.

Machover, Minsky, and Music in the Dome
Thursday, June 3, 7:30 pm
Hayden Planetarium Theater
$15 students, $30 adults
How does our brain create and conjure thoughts, emotions, and memories? Legendary composer and inventor Tod Machover will explore these mysteries with Artificial Intelligence visionary Marvin Minsky. The two iconoclasts will revisit their landmark musical experiment, the Brain Opera, and offer an exclusive sneak peak at Machover's upcoming opera, Death and the Powers, a groundbreaking MIT Media Lab production that explores what we leave behind for the world and our loved ones and uses specially designed technology, including a chorus of robots.

To the End of the Earth and Beyond
Friday, June 4, 7 pm
LeFrak Theater, first floor
$15 students, $30 adults
At the dawn of the last century two intrepid explorers-Norwegian Roald Amundsen and British Royal Navy Captain Robert Falcon Scott-famously competed to be the first to reach the South Pole. Join ABC's Bill Ritter as he moderates a panel featuring NASA Planetary Scientist Chris McKay, geologist and Martian meteorite expert Ralph P. Harvey, and other leading Antarctic scientists to explore how, 100 years after those historic journeys, this unique continent still challenges science and exploration. Learn about the uncharted caverns beneath floating ice shelves, the Mars-like dry valleys nestled in the Transantarctic Mountains, and the tenacious life forms inhabiting a land once thought to be uninhabitable.