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Better medicines may come from space [Idea Festival]

The International Space Station has become home to many new experiments, some of which include medicinal discoveries. Dr. Julie Robinson spoke at Idea Festival about some of the discoveries that have or might have benefited health care on earth.

Program Scientist for the International Space Station, Dr. Julie Robinson spoke at Idea Festival during an Idea Festival "Mash-up" event for all-access pass holders, sponsors and speakers only.

You have to run the world locally [Idea Festival]

Parag Khanna spoke at Idea Festival, sharing information on global events to suggest that power to provide social and environmental solutions should belong to anyone who wants to be part of the solution.

 

Okay Mountain art exhibit brings urban corner store and humor to life [Idea Festival]

A fully recreated corner store at the Idea Festival gives a humorous but depressing and scatalogical view on the American urban corner store. View a slideshow of the exhibit.

Upon first entering Idea Festival, one can't help but notice a yellow structure. I walked in and thought "That's new and strange; Idea Festival has added fair food."  I thought it was a food vendor due to the "Tamales" sign  at the top of the structure. Upon closer look, I realized it was a store art piece of sorts and on even closer inspection, realized I could go INTO the art exhibit.

Jon Landau of Avatar talks 3D at IdeaFestival [Technology]

Jon Landau, producer of the two highest grossing films of all time, Titanic and Avatar, talks about Avatar and the future of 3D at IdeaFestival 2010. So what's next in the world of 3D technology?
Avatar is now the highest grossing film of all-time with over $2.7 billion dollars in ticket sales, a substantial portion stemming from 3D screenings. Jon Landau also produced the second highest grossing film of all-time, Titanic.

Get ready Louisville time travelers [IdeaFestival]

Sean Carroll will be presenting Wild Time about the concept of time in all of its many manifestations. Saturday, 1:30 p.m. at Idea Festival.

Janelle Monae brings her hype act to the Bomhard Theater [IdeaFestival 2010]

Just a day after appearing on national TV, the singer will show Louisville’s Idea Festival what she is all about.

Sometimes it is hard to explain why there is a certain amount of hype surrounding a new artist, but this is not the case with Janelle Monae. She is turning heads everywhere from Rolling Stone to Sound Opinions because she is just so hard to explain. 

She is lauded by Puff Daddy and sings with members of Outkast – but she is not hip-hop.

Thrivals Festival offers empowering full day [IdeaFestival 2010]

Thrivals is a festival within the Idea Festival with an impressive line up of speakers and performers, including Nichelle Nichols of Star Trek fame and Janelle Monae on Wednesday, September 29.
Thrivals seems to be a festival within a festival and fills an entire day of the Idea Festival with an impressive list of speakers, finishing with a performance by rising alternative pop musician Janelle Monae who tells an epic story through her performance art and has  been called “a

Louisville news: We have a budget edition [News roundup]

A summary of local news for June 1, 2010
  • "After a day of tense negotiations, the Kentucky General Assembly approved a two-year, $17.1 billion budget late Friday, averting a broad shutdown of state government when the new fiscal year begins July 1." [Bluegrass Politics]

Welcome to the Bourdain Show, co-starring sex and enslavement

A rowdy crowd and a potty-mouth food and travel guy had a raucous good time at the Kentucky Center Friday night
Ingredients:

In which I eat my way across Louisville

Taste of Innovation served up a smorgasbord of Louisville creations
I’m not a fan of buffets -- I’d trade quantity for quality most any day. But a buffet by another name? Sure, we can talk about that! Call it a food and spirits networking event, roll it into the Idea Festival going on now, and I’ll line up with the rest of the crowd waiting hungrily outside the ballroom doors at the Galt House for Taste of Innovation.

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