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PROGRAMS
Science Author Talks
Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future with Chris Mooney
Now You See It: the Brain Science of Attention with Cathy Davidson, PhD
Knocking on Heaven's Door with physicist Lisa Randall, PhD
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos with Dava Sobel
The Better Angels of our Nature with neuroscientist Stephen Pinker, PhD
The Universe Within with evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin, PhD
Science on Ice with polar photographer Chris Linder
Science Writing – a conversation with Mary Roach (author of Gulp and many more) & Rebecca Skloot (author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)
How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction with biological anthropologist Robert Martin, PhD
Me, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of Self with Jennifer Ouellette
How the Body Knows Its Mind with psychologist Sian Beilock, PhD
Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science
Needs Story with biologist and filmmaker, Randy Olson, PhD
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs with astrophysicist Lisa Randall, PhD
Thing Explainer with Randall Munroe, XKCD creator
TED Talks, The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking with Chris Anderson, Head of TED
If Our Bodies Could Talk with James Hamblin, MD and MATTER Chicago
Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science with Dave Levitan
The Greatest Story Ever Told – So Far with astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Film Screenings
An Inconvenient Truth – in Grant Park in collaboration with the Chicago Department of Environment
The Right Stuff – in Grant Park in collaboration with Motorola, Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and Chicago Public Library
The Believers – award-winning documentary by 137 Films about the cold fusion scandal of 1989
The Atom Smashers – documentary film by 137 Films screened in celebration of
the July 2012 Higgs Boson discovery with panel discussion with physicists from Argonne and Fermi Laboratories
We Believe in Dinosaurs film preview and discussion with filmmakers from 137 Films at Google
Chemistry for Adults
Chemistry of Beer with Metropolitan Brewery (2010, 2012)
Chemistry of Chocolate with Blommer Chocolate (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Chemistry of Coffee with Intelligentsia Coffee (2011)
Chemistry of Cosmetics with cosmetic chemist Perry Romanowski (2011)
Chemistry of Honey with Notebaert Nature Museum (2011, 2014)
Chemistry of Whiskey with Koval Distillery (2011)
Chemistry of Spirits with CH Distillery (2015)
Brain / Neuroscience Programs
Your Brain on Cubs: The Neuroscience of Baseball Players & Fans with the Dana Institute (2009)
Your Brain on Happiness with Robin Nusslock, PhD, (2012)
Illinois Science Council Programs continued… Your Brain on Creativity with Mark Jung-Beeman, PhD (2012)
Your Brain and Memory with Elizabeth Kensinger, PhD (2012)
Your Brain on Addiction with Celeste Napier, PhD (2012)
Your Bain on Love, Sex & Oxytocin with Sue Carter, PhD and author Kayt Sukel (2012)
Your Brain on Behavioral Addictions with John grant, PhD, JD, MD (2014)
Your Brain on Beauty with Renee Engeln, PhD (2014)
Your Brain & Exercise – What’s the Connection? with Art Kramer, PhD (2015)
More Awesome Science
Tour of Argonne National Laboratories
Weather Forecasting and Why It's Wrong – with meteorologist Tad Maguire
String Theory Explained – with physicist Mark Jackson, PhD
Are We Ready for Genetic Medicine? – with geneticist Rex Chisholm, PhD
Is It the Genes or Just the Jeans? – The Biology of Gender
CSI: Chicago Style – Forensic Science by the Experts
Dinosaur Science – with paleontologist Paul Sereno, PhD
Disappearing Bees – with entomologist May Barenbaum, PhD
The Doomsday Clock and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist
Encyclopedia of Life: The World’s Biodiversity Project – with Mark Westneat, PhD
Cancer Causing Viruses – with Ken Alexander, MD
Improbable Research and Ig-Nobels Awards Show – AAAS Meeting Chicago (2009, 2014)
Spooky Science – A fun yet scientific look at ghosts, ESP and Halloween
Body Electric: Presentations on Lightning Strike Victims, Defibrillators & Tasers
Multi-verses – with cosmologist Lawrence Krauss, PhD and Chicago Public Library
Meteors and Meteorites – with astronomer Laura Trouille, PhD, and geologist James Holstein, MA (2012)
Perseid Meteor Shower – Chicago and Evanston beaches opened for public shooting viewing of meteor showers (2012, 2013)
Marijuana, Microbes & Milk: Science behind public health policy – with Jack Hermann, DVM, MPH and Yvette Johnson, PhD, DVM (2014)
Science Cocktail Party fundraising event with DIRTT Environmental Solutions (2012, 2103, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Pi Day Celebration promotion with Chicago area bakeries and restaurants on March 14th (annually 2009-2017)
Pi Day ‘Pi K’ (3.14 mile) Fun Run with Fleet Feet Sports (annually 2013 - 2017)
Total Lunar Eclipse 9/27/15 – partnership with Chicago Park District to open City beaches for public viewing
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