Does the growing interest of scientific themes in the literary, performing and visual arts contribute to the public understanding of science? Can works of fiction be critical tools to critique the sciences?

What roles do images play in each domain? Has the concept of beauty been banished by art and resuscitated by science? Suzanne Anker and her guests discuss authenticity and information as embedded narratives in pictures.

In an age of bio-technology and bio-engineering, the divide between nature and culture is becoming increasingly osmotic. Archeology meets DNA analysis, genes are bought and sold and urbanization is looked at as an aspect of manipulating nature.

The teratoma, a monstrous form of cells has resurfaced, as an entity which could bridge the philosophical gap between religion and science. Jennifer Willet and Shawn Bailey discuss their work which centers around live tissue, meat and digital media.