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Frans von der Dunk, Professor of Space Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Director of Black Holes Consultancy, is generally recognized as one of the world’s leading space law experts. Frans has acted as the Legal Task Manager in a number of studies undertaken in particular within the context of leading European Commission projects, such as on European space policy, Galileo and GNSS, sat...

Professor Curtis specializes in Environmental History and Studies with research and teaching foci on mining, environmental ideas, and food systems. Under the banner of Ecology and Social Justice, Curtis is the Principal Investigator in a community-led food system intervention project in Mansfield, Ohio. In 2016, Curtis designed a whole-system approach to urban agriculture development and in 2018 h...

John Ranelagh is a television executive and producer, and an author of history and of current politics. Author of various books one in particular "Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA" filled with scores of interviews with insiders and more than seven thousand pages of formerly classified documents support this history of the CIA, which focuses on "The Company's" remarkable personalities and le...

Jefferson Morley is a Washington author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation. Morley is one of the world’s most credible authorities on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He is editor of the blog, JFK Facts. He sued the CIA for certain records related to the Kennedy assassination in 2003. Fourteen years...

Peter Kuznick is professor of history and director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. He and Oliver Stone co-authored the 10 part Showtime documentary film series and book both titled The Untold History of the United States. He regularly provides commentary for all the major U.S. and international media and has begun his fourth three-year term as Organization of American Hist...

Marcelo Bratke is a Brazilian pianist A true representative of Brazil's kaleidoscope of cultures and traditions, Marcelo has complemented his many accomplishments as a classical pianist with imaginative explorations of music played by samba bands—music representing a world far removed from the refined milieu of classical recitals.

Dr. McCullough is an internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist managing the cardiovascular complications of both the viral infection and the injuries developing after the COVID-19 vaccine in Dallas, TX, USA. Since the outset of the pandemic, Dr. McCullough has been a leader in the medical response to the COVID-19 disaster and has published “Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpat...

Yue Max Li was a Conservation Research Scientist at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum based in Tucson, Arizona working in Peter Chesson's lab team to restore the environment through biodiversity. Interested in how the mechanisms of diversity maintenance differ between different systems, such as deserts and tropical forests. Before moving back to Shanghai in search of a more spiritual way to farm and be...

Robert Stickgold is a full professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. A sleep researcher, his work focuses on the relationship between sleep and learning. His articles in the popular press are intended to illustrate the dangers of sleep deprivation.

Miles Pomper is a Senior Fellow in the Washington DC office of CNS. His work focuses on nuclear energy, nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear security, and nuclear arms control. He holds a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

Steven D’Hondt is an American geomicrobiologist who studies microbial communities living beneath the seafloor. He is a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. D’Hondt’s research program investigates marine microorganisms in subseafloor sediments, with projects looking at the global distribution of cells, the energetics of subseafloor communities, ancient sedimentary DNA, and t...

Massimo Teodorani is a northern Italian astrophysicist, and obtained his “Laurea” degree in Astronomy and his Ph. D. in Stellar Physics at the University of Bologna. Among his varied research interests there is an active involvement in the study of anomalous aerial phenomena. In 2010 Dr Teodorani was invited to address the European Parliament on the subject of UFOs. Massimo was the lead scientific...

Mark Edward is an American mentalist who specializes in magic of the mind. He has written books on mentalism, séance theory and production, including Psychic Blues published in 2009, where he discusses working for the Psychic Friends Network. He has spent over twenty five years in world class venues from high-end night clubs and theaters to hundreds of private party and corporate events. As one of...

Dan Tynan is an American journalist, television and radio commentator who specializes in technology, humor, and humorous takes on technology. Former editor in chief of Yahoo Tech, he has also served as an Executive Editor and later contributing editor for PC World, InfoWorld.com, Family Circle and other publications that have gone on to the great magazine Valhalla in the sky. His work has appeared...

Kevin Corti is a Quantitative User Experience (UX) Researcher at Google based in New York City with a background of a Social Psychologist. The term "echoborg" was coined by social psychologists Kevin Corti and Alex Gillespie, which is a person whose words and actions are determined, in whole or in part, by an artificial intelligence. Leading to Kevin being interested in many lines of tech such as...

Daniel C. Hallin is Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. His research covers media and politics, media and war, media and public health, the history of journalistic professionalism, and comparative media systems, particularly in Europe and Latin America. Hallin divides the world of political discourse into three concentric spheres: consensus, legitimate controvers...

Bart Elmore is associate professor of environmental history and core faculty member of the Sustainability Institute at the Ohio State University. His first book, Citizen Coke, uncovered the untold environmental history of Coca-Cola, a firm founded in his hometown that became a universally recognized symbol of American capitalism around the world. Then his second book Seed Money is a deeply researc...

Peter Chesson is a Biology professor whose pioneering studies on the impact of environmental variability introduced a paradigm change into ecological thinking, according to board materials. Chesson has established a classification of coexistence mechanisms that has had profound effect on environmental issues and the management of natural populations. Peers and other researchers from around the wor...

Les wouldn't call himself the founder but a volunteer at The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement he just gave the name to the ideology of saving the environment by choosing not to reproduce. After becoming involved in the environmental movement as a college student in the 1970s, Knight attributed most of the dangers faced by the planet to human overpopulation. VHEMT supports human extinction prima...

Michael D. Gordin is an American science historian and slavicist, He studies the history of modern science, with an emphasis on the institutions and infrastructure that lie beneath the production of knowledge. Most of his work falls in three categories, which together emphasize the importance of studying phenomena on the edges of major developments in order to illuminate what is typically taken as...

James is a geologist, author, former college president and museum director, He chaired the geology department at Oberlin College later serving as its provost and president. Powell also served as president of Franklin & Marshall College as well as Reed College. His book, Night Comes to the Cretaceous, explores the scientific debate regarding dinosaur extinction. In Four Revolutions in the Earth...

Brian is an American writer and producer who focuses on science and skepticism. He has hosted a weekly podcast, Skeptoid, since 2006, and he is an author of a series of books on the subject of scientific skepticism, some of which are based on the podcast. Skeptoid has been the recipient of several podcast awards such as the Parsec Award. Dunning has also created the Skeptoid.org spin-off video ser...

Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Ph. D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). McIntyre is the author of How to Talk to a Science Denier and tries to communicate and discuss its importance of science.

Johnjoe McFadden is professor of molecular genetics and Director of the Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Surrey in the UK. McFadden wrote the popular science book, Quantum Evolution on the concept of quantum evolution. The book examines the role of quantum mechanics in life, evolution and consciousness. The book has been described as offering an alternative evolutionar...

Paul is a cultural historian and award-winning author based in London. His debut book, Spare Parts: A Surprising History of Transplants was a Daily Mail Book of the Week and won the Special Commendation of the Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Awards. Paul is a Science Museum Group Senior Research Associate (SMGSRA), an Honorary Senior Research Associate of UCL’s Division of Surgery, and...