World Maker Faire New York 2012

Should Science Be Allowed to be Interesting? One Man's Insane Journey through a TV Career on PBS

Location: ZONE A AUDITORIUM

In this lavishly photographed, highly hilarious talk, Pogue will share the experience of a lifetime--and opine on the state of science, television, and humor in America.

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David Pogue

- New York Times

David Pogue writes the tech column for the New York Times every week, and in Scientific American every month. On TV, you may know him from his funny tech videos on CNBC every Thursday, or his stories for CBS Sunday Morning, or the NOVA miniseries he hosted on PBS, called \"MakingStuff.\" With over 3 million books in print, David is one of the world's bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the \"forDummies\" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes 120 titles. David graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1985, with distinction in Music, and he spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York. He's won an Emmy, a Loeb award for journalism, and an honorary doctorate in music. He's been profiled on \"48Hours\" and \"60Minutes.\" He lives in Connecticut with his three children. His web site is www.davidpogue.com.

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