“Read Science!”, Guest List

Posted by jnshaumeyer on 7 August 2016

“Read Science!”, Guest List

Alphabetically by Last Name, with Series Cross-Reference

• Buzz Aldrin, co-author of Mission to Mars, Series 1
• Misha Angrist, author of Here is a Human Being, Series 2
• Emily Anthes, author of Frankenstein’s Cat, Series 2
• Kimberly Arcand, co-author of Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe, Series 10
• Sue Armstrong, author of p53 : The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code, Series 5
• Kat Arney, author of Herding Hemingway’s Cats : Understanding How Our Genes Work, Series 7
• Nancy Atkinson, author of Incredible Stories from Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos, Series 9
• Cynthia Barnett, author of Rain : A Natural and Cultural History, Series 6
• Molly Bang, co-author of the books Living Sunlight (about photosynthesis), Ocean Sunlight (phytoplankton), Buried Sunlight (fossil fuels), and Rivers of Sunlight (ocean currents), Series 9
• Lee Billings, author of Five Million Years of Solitude : The Search for Life among the Stars, Series 3
• Carin Bondar, author of Wild Sex: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom, Series 8
• Michael Brooks, author of Free Radicals : The Secret Anarchy of Science, Series 1
• Bethany Brookshire, co-editor of Science Blogging : The Essential Guide, Series 7
• Sean Carroll, author of The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World, Series 4
• Penny Chisholm, co-author of the books Living Sunlight (about photosynthesis), Ocean Sunlight (phytoplankton), Buried Sunlight (fossil fuels), and Rivers of Sunlight (ocean currents), Series 9
• Marcus Chown, author of What a Wonderful World : One Man’s Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff, Series 3
• Lucy Cooke, filmmaker and author of A Little Book of Sloth, Series 1
• Leonard David, co-author of Mission to Mars, Series 1
• Kevin Davies, author of The $1,000 Dollar Genome, Series 2
• Nicola Davies, author of Tiny Creatures : The World of Microbes, Series 6
• Caitlin Doughty, author of From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, Series 10
• Lee Alan Dugatkin, co-author of How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution, Series 11
• David Epstein, author of The Sports Gene : Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance, Series 3
• Suzi Eszterhas, wildlife photographer and author of Eye on the Wild Series, Series 2
• Suzi Eszterhas, photographer for A Future for Cheetahs, Series 5
• Dan Fagin, author of Toms River : A Story of Science and Salvation, Series 2
• Jason Fagone, author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America’s Enemies, Series 10
• Rose George, author of The Big Necessity : The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters, Series 1
• Jason G. Goldman, co-editor of Science Blogging : The Essential Guide, Series 7
• Temple Grandin, co-author of The Autistic Brain : Thinking Across the Spectrum, Series 2
• Theo Gray, author of Molecules : The Elements and the Architecture of Everything, Series 5
• James Green, Director of NASA’s Planetary Sciences Division, and consultant for Ridley Scott’s “The Martian”, Series 6
• Joel Greenberg, author of From Billions to None : The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction, Series 5
• Steve Gullens, co-author with Juan Enriquez of the book Evolving Ourselves : How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth, Series 6
• Chris Hadfield, author of An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth : What Going to Space Taught Me about Ingenuity, Determination and Being Prepared for Anything, Series 3
• Liz Heinecke, author of Kitchen Science Lab for Kids, Series 5
• Nathalia Holt, author of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars, Series 8
• Scott Huler, author of On the Grid : A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make our World Work, Series 1
• Alex Hutchinson, author of Endure : Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, Series 11
• Chris Impey, author of Beyond : Our Future in Space. Series 5
• Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN Mission Principal Investigator and author of Science, Society, and the Search for Life in the Universe, Series 6
• Hope Jahren, author of Lab Girl, Series 8
• Alok Jha, author of The Water Book : The Extraordinary Story of our Most Ordinary Substance, Series 6
• Terry Johnson, co-authors of How To Defeat Your Own Clone, Series 2
• George Johnson, author of The Cancer Chronicles : Unlocking Medecine’s Deepest Mystery, Series 5
• Richard Jurek, co-author of Marketing the Moon : The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program, Series 4
• Sam Kean, author of Caesar’s Last Breath : Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us, Series 10
• Susan W. Kieffer, author of The Dynamics of Disaster, Series 3
• Paul Knoepfler, author of GMO Sapiens: The Life-Changing Science of Designer Babies, Series 7
• Maria Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game : Why We Fall for it Every Time, Series 6
• Kyle Kurpinski, co-author of How To Defeat Your Own Clone, Series 2
• Dave Levitan, author of Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science, Series 9
• Joselin Linder, author of The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance Into a Hopeful Future, Series 8
• Mario Livio, author of Brilliant Blunders : From Darwin to Einstein – Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe, Series 1
• Mario Livio, author of Why? What Makes Us Curious, Series 9
• Daniel Loxton, author of Pterosaur Trouble, Series 1
• Nick Mann, photographer for Molecules : The Elements and the Architecture of Everything, Series 5
• Laurie Marker, researcher for A Future for Cheetahs, Series 5
• Maryn McKenna, author of Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats, Series 10
• Kalliopi Monoyios, illustrator of Your Inner Fish : A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, Series 4
• Virginia Morell, author of Animal Wise : The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures, Series 3
• David Mrazek, producer of From Billions to None : The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction, Series 5
• Barbara Oakley, author of Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential, Series 9
• Chad Orzel, author of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog and How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog. Series 4
• Jennifer Ouellette, author of Me, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of Self, Series 4
• Richard Panek, co-author of The Autistic Brain : Thinking Across the Spectrum, Series 2
• Henry Petroski, author of The Road Taken : The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure, Series 7
• Corey S. Powell, editor of Undeniable : Evolution and the Science of Creation, by Bill Nye, Series 5
• David Quammen, author of Spillover : Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, Series 4
• Mary Roach, author of Gulp, Series 1
• Mary Roach, author of Grunt : The Curious Science of Humans at War, Series 7
• Bonnie Rochman, author of The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids–and the Kids We Have, Series 8
• Richard Evan Schwartz, author of the books Gallery of the Infinite, Really Big Numbers, and You Can Count on Monsters, Series 9
• David Meerman Scott, co-author of Marketing the Moon : The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program, Series 4
• Lynn Sherr, author of Sally Ride : America’s First Woman in Space, Series 4
• Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish : A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, Series 4
• Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes : The Legacy of Autism and the Furute of Neurodiversity, Series 6
• Brian Switek, author of My Beloved Brontosaurus, Series 1
• Amy Shira Teitel, author of Breaking the Chains of Gravity : The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA, Series 8
• Jessica Wapner, author of The Philadelphia Chromosome : A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level, Series 2
• Cat Warren, author of What the Dog Knows : The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs, Series 3
• Megan Watzke, co-author of Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe, Series 10
• Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of Soonish : Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything, Series 10
• Zach Weinersmith, co-author of Soonish : Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything, Series 10
• Christie Wilcox, co-editor of Science Blogging : The Essential Guide, Series 7
• Christie Wilcox, author of Venomous : How Earth’s Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry, Series 8
• Edward O. Wilson, author of Letters to a Young Scientist, Series 2
• Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes : The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, Series 7
• Carl Zimmer, author of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, And Potential Of Heredity, Series 11