James Fallon is a neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry and human behavior at UC Irvine School of Medicine.

Chris McNamara is a big wall climber, ex-wingsuit BASE jumper and the author of more than ten books.

David Vincent is a social historian at the Open University, and is the author of, "A History of Solitude."

Daniel K. Richter is a professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of "Facing East from Indian Country."

Ananyo Bhattacharya is a correspondent for The Economist, and the author of The Man From The Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann.

Gabriel Licina is a biohacker and the founder of Scihouse, a non-profit bioengineering group.

Vitali Shkliarov is an expert in US-Russian relations and worked on the Presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders.

Timothy Denevi is a professor at the MFA program at George Mason University, and is the author of "Hyper" and "Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism."

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a professor of English at Oxford University, and the author of numerous books, including most recently, "The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World."

Steve Fuller is a philosopher at the University of Warwick and the author of a number of book's including, "Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future."