Science Speakers

Enlightening and accessible, our science author speakers explore health, medicine, the environment, and beyond to reveal the intricate connections between science and ourselves.

Suzanne Simard

Leader of The Mother Tree Project and author of Finding the Mother Tree

Bina Venkataraman

Author of The Optimist's Telescope, columnist at The Washington Post, and a fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center

Ed Yong

Pulitzer Prize winning science staff writer for The Atlantic

Carl Zimmer

New York Times columnist and award-winning science journalist

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Jim Bell

Award-winning astronomer and author of Postcards From Mars and The Interstellar Age

Adam Benforado

New York Times bestselling author of A Minor Revolution and Unfair

Deborah Blum

Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Poisoner's Handbook and The Poison Squad

John Carreyrou

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller Bad Blood

Susan Casey

New York Times-bestselling author of The Wave and former editor in chief of O, The Oprah Magazine

David Ewing Duncan

Award-winning science and technology journalist and bestselling author of Talking to Robots

Robert Kolker

Award-winning journalist and instant #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road

Dr. Matt McCarthy

Bestselling author of Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic and Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine

Jenny Odell

New York Times-bestselling author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time

Delia Owens

#1 New York Times-bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing and wildlife scientist

Neil Shubin

Evolutionary biologist and discoverer of the "Missing Link," and author of Your Inner Fish and The Universe Within

David Allen Sibley

The world's leading authority on birds and birding; author and illustrator

Steve Silberman

Award-winning science writer and New York Times-bestselling author of NeuroTribes

Bren Smith

Restorative ocean farmer, co-founder of GreenWave, and author of Eat Like a Fish

Dr. Dana Suskind

Pediatric physician and author of Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain and Parent Nation

Neil Swidey

Award-winning journalist and author of Trapped Under the Sea, and specialist in risk and safety

Gary Taubes

Journalist, nutrition expert, and bestselling author

Dr. Vint Virga

Distinguished veterinary practitioner and animal behaviorist, and author of The Soul of All Living Creatures

Nicholas Wade

Freelance writer and former science reporter for The New York Times

Dr. W. Lee Warren

Neurosurgeon, Iraq War veteran, and author of I've Seen the End of You