Exhibits

2011 Exhibit information will come shortly.
The following Exhibits were on display
at the 2010 New York Encounter:

The Earth, A Human Habitat

Wonder is the most human response to the beauty of reality, and has always led human beings to raise questions: Why is the sky so impressive this evening? And why these colors? The very fact that we exist is itself a great source of wonder. For it is by no means obvious that there should be human beings within the universe.

This exhibit represents an attempt, from a strictly scientific point of view, to address the kinds of questions that arise when we consider the Earth as a human habitat.

The exhibit is divided into four sections.

  • Astrophysics focuses on aspects such as the location of the Earth in the Milky Way and in the Solar System, and the features of the Sun and other planets.
  • Geology inspects the Earth's magnetic field, the hot core, the plate tectonics, and other geological features.
  • Chemistry delves into the details of the Earth's chemical composition, the presence of water, the atmosphere, the cycles of carbon and other elements.
  • Biology describes, among other things, the changing conditions that favored the beginning and development of life, including the "snowball” effect and the extinction of dinosaurs.

The exhibit is prepared by Euresis USA.

Contact Euresis to bring it to your city.

Life & Fate

Life and Fate is the masterpiece novel of Vasilij Grossman (1905-1964), one of the most important and most unknown authors of the twentieth century; it tells the story of a family during the battle of Stalingrad.

The main theme of this novel is the absolute, indomitable nature of man in the face of any form of power-- a nature witnessed to by the great questions about the meaning of existence, well describing the heart and reason of man, even in the most dramatic circumstances of human life.