Big Problems, Tiny Solutions: MIT’s Susan Hockfield Joins Bill Nye on the Science Rules! Podcast
How will we address the needs of everyone on earth as the population continues to grow? Susan Hockfield—Neuroscientist, author, and former president of MIT—suggests we turn to biology for answers. By the year 2050, there will be almost ten billion people on earth. Unsurprisingly, the population... Continue Reading →
Dr. David Fajgenbaum Featured on Good Morning America
Doctor David Fajgenbaum, whose forthcoming memoir Chasing My Cure hits shelves September 9th, sat down with Good Morning America to discuss his incredible journey. From a Georgetown quarterback to the brink of death and back—five times—Fajgenaum was tackled by a brutal, rare disease in his... Continue Reading →
Modern-Day Explorer George Kourounis Reveals Plans to Climb 10,000 Year-Old Iceberg
George Kourounis, an explorer-in-residence for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and the host of Angry Planet, has an ambitious plan to go where no man has gone before: an iceberg located in Newfoundland’s “Iceberg Alley.” Iceberg Alley becomes home to 400 to 800 new icebergs every year,... Continue Reading →
Nina Tandon’s Revolutionary Bone Reconstruction Company Approved for FDA Trial
Nina Tandon’s company EpiBone has received FDA clearance to begin its first clinical trial—making it one step closer to providing patients with precision-fit skeletal implants grown from their own cells. Nina Tandon believes we are close to unlocking the regenerative capabilities of our own bodies... Continue Reading →
Getting Curious with New Speaker, Scientist and Former Daily Planet Co-Host Dan Riskin
To evolutionary biologist, TV host, and bestselling author Dan Riskin, picking his scientific focus was easy. “I had a crush on bats,” he says. “I thought they were cute!” Maybe you don’t share the sentiment, but there’s a strong chance that you feel passionate about something, and that passion can... Continue Reading →
Nat Geo is Developing a TV Series based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures—Margot Lee Shetterly’s runaway New York Times bestseller and the inspiration for the Academy Award nominated film—is being developed by the original producers into a series for Nat Geo, National Geographic’s cable channel. Shetterly’s book recounts the true story of the black women... Continue Reading →
At the Intersection of Art and Science: 3 Speakers Show Us New Ways of Seeing the World
Art and science have long enjoyed a fruitful partnership (da Vinci, anyone?) and Lavin’s speakers are no exception to the rule. In light of the release of physicist and writer Alan Lightman’s latest novel, Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, we rounded up three of our speakers whose work... Continue Reading →
Mapping the Heavens: Introducing New Speaker Priyamvada Natarajan
Astronomy is the people’s science, says Priyamvada Natarajan—the sky belongs to everyone. A theoretical physicist based out of Yale University, Natarajan studies the mysteries of the cosmos that are revealing themselves to us day by day: invisible dark matter, which takes up nearly one-third of... Continue Reading →