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Ainissa Ramirez is a materials scientist and sought-after public speaker and science communicator. A Brown and Stanford graduate, she has worked as a research scientist at Bell Labs and held[…]
Tom Hafer developed systems for neutralizing rockets and drones during a nearly 50-year career working for or with the Defense Department and Homeland Security. He is currently retired and coaches[…]
David Schonthal is a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, the Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at Kellogg, and the Faculty Director of the Zell Fellows Program. He is a[…]
Loran Nordgren is a Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, where he researches the psychological processes that guide how we think and act. Nordgren's research[…]
Dr. Bruce Greyson is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the UVA School of Medicine. He served on the medical school faculty at the Universities of Michigan, Connecticut,[…]
Michael Spitzer is the author of The Musical Human and professor of music at the University of Liverpool, where he leads the department’s work on classical music. A music theorist[…]
Dr. Merchant is a historian of science and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on the quantitative human sciences and technologies of human measurement. Her first book, Building[…]
Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O’Briens, and Every Note Played. Still Alice was adapted into[…]
Crystal Hunter is a Learning Experience Design consultant based in northern Utah. With over 18 years of experience, she has created training programs and educational technology platforms for clients across[…]
Elizabeth Gilbert, JD, PhD, is Head of Research at PsychologyCompass, which merges psychology and technology to help people develop habits to improve their mental well-being and performance. Her research expertise[…]
Eswar Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and professor of economics at Cornell University. He is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he holds[…]
Anna Lembke is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more[…]
Tom Alberg (1940-2022) was a lawyer and businessman who had served on the boards of many public and private companies, including Amazon, for which he was a director from 1996[…]
Beth Shapiro is an evolutionary molecular biologist and a professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work focuses on ancient[…]
Robb Dunn is writer and professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University. He is the author of books such as Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest[…]
Dr. Elizabeth Fernandez is a science communicator, looking at the interface between science and technology in society, and writes on science and society, science and philosophy, astronomy, physics, and geology.[…]
Louise Haagh is a professor of politics at the University of York. She is co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network and author of The Case for Universal Basic Income.
Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist examining our fraught relationships with nature and technology. Through artworks, writing, and curatorial projects, Daisy’s work explores subjects as diverse as artificial intelligence,[…]
John McWhorter is an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University. He writes an opinion column for The New York Times, hosts the podcast “Lexicon Valley," and is the author[…]
Jacob Helberg is a senior adviser at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Helberg is[…]
Jonathan Malesic is an essayist, journalist, and scholar whose writing has been recognized as notable in Best American Essays (2019, 2020, 2021) and Best American Food Writing (2020) and has[…]
Andrew Fillat, who trained as an electrical engineer, has worked for technology venture capital and information technology companies.
Michael Bhaskar is the cofounder of Canelo, one of the world’s fastest growing publishing companies, and former consultant Writer in Residence at DeepMind, the world’s leading AI lab. He has written[…]
Henry Gee is a senior editor at Nature and the author of several books, including A Very Short History of Life on Earth. He has appeared on BBC television and[…]
Luke Burgis is a veteran entrepreneur and author. He’s the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship in Washington, DC, and the founder of Fourth Wall Ventures, an incubator[…]
Jimena Canales is an expert in 19th and 20th century history of the physical sciences, working for a better understanding of science and technology in relation to the arts and[…]
Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden is a tenured professor in the Department of Psychology at UT, where she leads the Developmental Behavior Genetics lab and co-directs the Texas Twin Project. She[…]
Dr. Peter Rogers grew up milking cows and building barns. This provided him the transferable skills necessary for a smooth transition into academic research. Three years of genetics research led[…]