The fourth Media in Transition conference, May 6-8, 2005, explored storytelling as a cultural practice. Above, Alan Lightman (left) and Robert Kanigel, professors in MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing, ponder a point during their roundtable on "narratives of science."

[co-sponsors: School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Literature Faculty and the Angus H. MacDonald Fund of the MIT Writing Program]