Presentation: Natalie Angier

Audio/Visual recording of Natalie Angier speaking at the 34th Annual UND Writers Conference on March 24, 2003. In this presentation, Angier speaks on her favorite topic the evolution of beauty. She begins by describing the general characteristics of beauty and its multiplicity of roles in nature. She moves on to examine the role fashion has on the evolutionary psychology of humans, focusing more specifically on hair. Afterwards, Angier answered questions touching on a range of subject such as the significant of beauty in culture, the roles of men and women, origins of beauty stereotypes, our attraction to art, genital mutilation, and future projects

De vrouw : de waarheid over het vrouwelijk lichaam.

Oorspr. tit. Woman, an intimate geograph

Panel: Art & Science

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Panel: Science Fact/Science Fiction

This audiovisual recording from March 27, 2003 as part of the 34th annual UND Writers Conference: “Art & Science” features Devra Davis, Julia Whitty, Natalie Angier, Ted Mooney, and Thomas Disch forming the panel “Science Fact/Science Fiction.” The panelists discuss definitions and intersections of fiction and fact, the use of dolphins to detect mines in the Persian Gulf, blurred moral lines concerning human-animal relationships, technology and Science Fiction in war, science education, Edgar Allan Poe as an early Science Fiction writer, Science Fiction as mythology. Panel moderated by Dr. Al Fivizzani