Washington DC 2023

Failed Experiments

Light

• Icebreaker: Replication Crisis
• Housekeeping_Speech [Not Available]
• The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas by They Might Be Giants (Or Glazer & Evans) ◦ A mostly accurate ode to the sun
• Landsailor by Vienna Teng ◦ A salute to industrialization and its fruits
• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies
• Bold Orion by Leo Kretzner and Jon Bell ◦ A mythologically inspired ode to Orion the Hunter
• Why Solstice? Why Failed Experiments? by Maia Werbos

Twilight

• Song Of The Artesian Water by Banjo Paterson and Anna Tchetchekine ◦ A song about human ingenuity in the face of challenges.
• Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail
• The Replication Crisis by Rivka Fleischman
• The Mary Ellen Carter by Stan Rogers ◦ A folk song of determination and recovery
• Costs of Progress by Luna

Night

• Laika
• Space Doggity by Jonathon Coulton ◦ A good dog goes into orbit, before the invention of safe de-orbiting
• When I Die by Glen Raphael ◦ A light-hearted song about death
• Minute of Silence

Dawn

• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire
• Endless Lights by Raymond Arnold ◦ A song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities
• We Are The Light by Logan Strohl and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ◦ This dark, cold, terrifying world is ours to conquer
• Beautiful Tomorrow by Evgeny Krylatov (Music), Yuri Entin (Original Lyrics) and Anna Tchetchetkine et. al. (English Translation) ◦ Tomorrow calls to me
• End_Credits [Not Available]

Coda

• The Circle by Taylor Smith ◦ Expanding the moral circle
• Battle Hymn Of The Rationalist Community by Scott Alexandar (Lyrics) ◦ A triumphant celebration of truth and humanity