Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist and host of the Emmy Award winning COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey. Taking you on a fantastic journey through our universe. Explore the Cosmos and beyond!
Science
Programs about the science of our universe and our world
Sandra Steingraber
Internationally renowned anti-fracking activist and biologist, Steingraber reveals the harm that unsafe chemicals in our environment have on our health…and our children’s health
Video: Speaking out on Fracking
Video: The Legacy of Rachel Carson
Bas Lansdorp
Visionary CEO of Mars One, Bas intends to create permanent human settlement on Mars in 2027. Gifted with an entrepreneurial spirit, Bas inspires audiences to dream big!
Video: Mars One Introduction Film
Ainissa Ramirez
Dr. Ramirez is a “science evangelist” who is passionate about getting the audiences excited about science. She inspires young people to consider STEM careers.
Ainissa Ramirez and the importance of STEM education
Michael Mann
Part of the IPCC team that won the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Mann is an award-winning climate scientist and central figure in the debate over climate change.
Kevin Knobloch
Former senior Energy Department official and president of Union of Concerned Scientists, expert on energy and environmental public policy.
Daniel H. Wilson
Author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising, roboticist Dr. Daniel Wilson offers an entertaining look at ‘killer robots’, while offering insights into robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and cyber security.
Christine McKinley
STEM activist Christine McKinley is a mechanical engineer, musician, host of Discovery Channel’s Decoded, and author of Physics For Rock Stars
Sonia Shah
What will the next new virus look like? Will it be drug-resistant? Where will it happen next? These are the questions Sonia Shah addresses in her newest book, Pandemic.
David Quammen
David Quammen is an author and journalist whose books include The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover, and is a contributing writer for National Geographic.
Derrick Pitts
For many, Chief Astronomer Derrick Pitts is The Franklin Institute. Pitts teaches us to look up and wonder about what we see up there. His motto: “Eat, breathe, do science. Sleep later.”
Video: Pitts at UW-Madison’s Big Learning Event
Steven Strogatz
An award-winning researcher, teacher, and communicator, Strogatz enjoys sharing the beauty of math though his books, essays, and public lectures. Author of The Joy of X
Robert Kirshner
Part of the Nobel-Award winning research team on “cosmic expansion” — takes his audience inside the world of dark energy, exploding stars, and the accelerating universe.
Charles C. Mann
Charles Mann offers valuable insights into the most important event of the last 500 years – the European discovery of the Americas — in his award winning books 1491 and 1493
Edith Widder
Biologist, adventurer, deep sea explorer, innovator & inventor, who — through her organization ORCA — is changing the nature of aquatic conservation!
Jeff Lieberman
Jeff Lieberman reminds us how little our senses detect and understand reality! He combines his passions for art and science in ways that reveal how one influences the other.
Video: Jeff Lieberman at TEDxCambridge
Margaret Lowman
Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic and “Einstein of the Treetops” by the Wall Street Journal, Meg Lowman pioneered the science of rainforest canopy ecology.
Richard Rhodes
Pulitzer Prize winner for The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Rhodes has written two other critically acclaimed books on nuclear warfare.
Video: Speaking at the American Museum of Science and Energy