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)