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Science of Superheroes: Wonder Woman vs. Captain Marvel — Who’s faster? Who’s stronger?
Tracking the Elusive Neutrino Particle — the Physics of a Subatomic Trip from Fermilab and Supernovas to a Gold Mine in South Dakota
Food Allergies and the Microbiome — What’s the Connection? What’s the Answer?
Tracking Endangered Species by Their Spots! Individual Whale Sharks, Turtles, Giraffes, Whales, and More Monitored in the Wild using AI and Citizen Science
Are You Sure You Understand Climate Change? Explaining Climate Change and Finding Solutions
Sleep and Memory: How much are you getting and how’s that working out for you?
The Biology of Human Mating
Understanding the Human Microbiome
Using Evolution & Viruses to Cure Disease
Mapping the Human Brain’s ‘Connectome’
Neuroscience of the Addicted Brain
Science of GMO Foods
You and Your Microorganisms – a bacterial guide to your health
The Brain & Pain – How it’s studied and treated
Body & Brain: How using your hands can change your mind
Brain implants create bionic arm with sense of touch in prosthetics
Circadian Rhythms, Sleep & Your Health – What? How? & When?
Your Brain on Psychotropic Drugs
Deep Ocean Research Adventure – Discovering Life Waaaay Down Under
Holding science in your hands – 3D printing at the interface of art & research
The Physics of “Game of Thrones
Dangers & Risks of Artificial Intelligence — Insecurity & Hacking of Systems
Don’t Call Me Pollyanna: The Science of Positive Emotions, Stress, and Health
Language and Artificial Intelligence – Communication, Connecting, and the Practical Applications of Machine-Generated Language
Brains and Bionic Hands — Artificial Touch and the Neuroscience of Prosthetics
What Climate Change Means for Infrastructure and the Built Environment — Can We engineer Our Way Out of This?
Bionic Limbs: What’s really possible and what’s science fiction?
Science of Marijuana: What’s Really Known and What’s Just Rumor?
The Mysteries of Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the accelerating Universe
Electric Vehicles and Battery Research
How to Bake Pi – The logic and beauty of mathematics through baking
Detecting the Invisible – the study of the ghostly neutrino particles
Chimpanzees and innovation
Film screening of “This Has Been to Space”
Microorganisms – in you, on you, around you
Chicago’s Urban Wildlife – What you might encounter in your neighborhood
Saving Monarchs and More – Trials, tribulations, and citizen science of tracking and saving species
The End of Water As We Know It
Black Holes & Gravitational Waves – Why a massive galactic occurrence requires mind-blowingly precise detection
Microscopy and the Mystery of Pablo Picasso’s Paints
Science and Art of Risk Taking – Courage, Caution, and Chance
Past Speakers
Cathryn Nagler – University of Chicago
Ben Zhao – University of Chicago
Thomas Wall – Argonne National Laboratory
Tanya Berger-Wolf – University of Illinois – Chicago
Doug Sisterson – Argonne National Laboratory
Brian J. Ingram – Argonne National Laboratory
Dan Hooper – Fermilab
Elise Jennings – Fermilab
Stephen Moose – University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign
Daniel Casasanto – MIT
Eugenia Cheng – University of Sheffield, UK
Sliman Bensmaia – University of Chicago
Melissa Farmer – Northwestern University
Jack Gilbert – University of Chicago
Rex Twedt – University of Illinois – Chicago
Sid Nagel and Heinrich Jaeger – University of Chicago
Sarah London – University of Chicago
Marc Berman – University of Chicago
Stephanie Palmer – University of Chicago
Jason MacLean – University of Chicago
Monika Bickert – Facebook Inc.
Shane Larson – Adler Planetarium
Janet Voight – Field Museum
Elizabeth Addington – Northwestern University
Kristian Hammond – Northwestern University
Kayt Sukel – Author of The Art of Risk
Moran Cerf – Northwestern University
Becky Thompson – American Physical Society
Lisa Lehrer – Lincoln Park Zoo
Anne Schukraft – Fermilab
Seth Darling – Argonne National Laboratory
Volker Rose – Argonne National Laboratory
Allan Drummond – University of Chicago
Martha Hotz Vitaterna – Northwestern University
Doug Taron – Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Richard Miller – Northwestern University
Robert Martin – Field Museum
Bobby Kasthrui – Argonne National Laboratory
Bryan Dickinson – University of Chicago
Celeste Napier – Rush University
Dara Randerson – ComEd
Jack Hermann – University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign
Sadie Witowski – Northwestern University
Todd Kuiken – Northwestern University
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