Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, Department of Microbiology College of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Lloyd’s Deep Subsurface biosphere research is vital to determining where and how subsurface microorganisms exist, consume and produce energy on the fringes of survivability.  

Professor and Mellon Chair in History of Art, Science, and Folk Practice at the Warburg Institute, John Tresch is the author of The Reason for the Darkness of the Night Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science. This book peels back the curtains on Poe’s life as someone whose life has been surrounded and formed by his passion and fascination for the sciences. A debunker and sometimes fraudster himself, science was always Poe’s first mistress.

Author of Math Geek: From Klein Bottles to Chaos Theory, a Guide to the Nerdiest Math Facts, Theorems, and Equations, Rosen is a science communications associate at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and was inspired to write while working at the San Francisco Exploratorium.

The author of Extraordinary Insects The Fabulous, Indispensable Creatures Who Run Our World, shares the marvels of the insect world.

In this episode, Ryan North, author of How to Invent Everything, and the creator and author of Dinosaur Comics, along with haven written for the comic series of Adventure Time and Marvel Comics' The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, while his works have won multiple Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards, manages to drop in to chat about the wonders of having the ability to invent everything.

Allen Packwood OBE is a Fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University and Director of the Churchill Archives Centre. He has authored and edited many publications related to Churchill and has lectured extensively in the United Kingdom and the United States. IN this conversation with American Museum of Science and Energy Director, Alan Lowe discuss one of their favorite Brits, Winston Chruchill.

Nathalia Holt, Ph.D. is the New York Times bestselling author of The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History, two other books, and numerous publications.

The son of a physicist and electrical engineer, at 15, he began working as a computer programmer for Sandia National Laboratories. In 2016 Andy Weir received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for his story the Martian.

Author of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006), Joyce E. Chaplin has written three other nonfiction books and finds herself at Harvard University as the James Duncan Phillips Professor of History.