Night Science: Using Humor in the Creative Scientific Process

What we call the scientific method tells us what to do once we have a hypothesis – but where do these hypotheses come from in the first place? François Jacob famously called this part the realm of ‘Night Science’. Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher developed a curriculum to teach the thinking tools of ‘Night Science’ creative scientific process, including improvisational discussions, interdisciplinarity, metaphorical language, questions from contradictions, puzzle-switching, and a general attitude of openness toward new ideas (https://night-science.org/home/learn/). In this presentation, Prof. Itai Yanai will join forces with Sarah Adelman, a touring stand-up comic and a published research scientist, to discuss a framework for using humor as a thinking tool for arriving at new ideas.

Speakers: 

Sarah Adelman, MPH- Stand up comic, screenwriter and (former) scientist

Itai Yanai, PhD- Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine and co-founder of Night Science Initiative

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