Because the world needs another festival, former ABC News producer Tracy Day and her author/physicist hubby Brian Greene have founded the World Science Festival, hitting the streets of New York from May 29th through June 1st.

Oliver Sachs, Richard Leakey and Doug Liman provide the star power, while a bunch for really smart dudes and dudettes supply the brains. Alan Alda will also make an appearance. We're not sure what category he falls under.

Despite our attitude, we have to admit that some of the events (Science of Disney Imagineering and Seeds, Survival, Stalin) actually sound interesting. At the very least, it's better than watching a craptastic movie.

More deets after the jump.

Dear Friend: Once in a blue moon (we'll explain) people do the impossible. That's what Tracy Day, a former ABC News producer and her husband, Brian Greene, the brilliant physicist and author of The Elegant Universe, have done in a string of nanoseconds by inventing the first ever World Science Festival to be held in NYC from May 29th through June 1st. One of the first things they did was recruit their friend Alan Alda, who, as some of you know, hosts Scientific American Frontiers on PBS. The 40+ programs will amaze, entertain, inspire and change the way you think and feel about ideas and subjects that touch our lives every day but have seemed rarified and exclusive. Until now. What Brian, Tracy and Alan have achieved is a can't-miss series of spectacular programming taking place throughout the city at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, Museum of Natural History, the Guggenheim, the NY Historical Society, Rubin Museum of Art, Paley Center for Media, CUNY, NYU, COLUMBIA, COOPER UNION, the 92nd Street Y, The Moth at Symphony Space, and the streets and parks of NYC. Some of the speakers like Oliver Sachs, Richard Leakey and Doug Liman will be familiar to you. Others are just a bunch of Nobel prize winners or what I call "fat brains" who are defining our world and our future. Take a look at the Web site, and sign up for the programs you want to see or participate in. This event is important to NYC, and important to all of us. Thanks for passing this on to your friends. Now about that blue moon.