Harvard Science Book Talks and Research Lectures

Alexander Rehding and Daniel Chua, "Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth"

Daniel Everett, "Homo Erectus and the Invention of Human Language"

J. Craig Venter, "The Voyage of Sorcerer II"

Felix Flicker, "The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life"

Avi Loeb, "Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars"

Venki Ramakrishnan, "Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality"

Matthew Strassler, "Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean"

Jim Al-Khalili, "The Joy of Science"

Nina Kraus, "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World"

Nick Lane, "Transformer : The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death"

Peter Pesic "Sounding Bodies: Music and the Making of Biomedical Science"

Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran "The Warped Side of Our Universe"

Paul Halpern "The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes"

Robert Cahn and Chris Quigg, in conversation with Melissa Franklin, "Grace in all Simplicity"

Carl Safina, in conversation with J. Drew Lanham "Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe"

Chris Wiggins & Matthew L. Jones, "How Data Happened"

Philip Plait, "Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe"

Robert Sapolsky, "Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will"

Sean Carroll, "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion"

Erik Hoel, "The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science"

James Morton Turner, "Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future"

Nicholas Money, "Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi"

Simon Clark "Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us"

Leslie Valiant, "The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness"

Peter Fisher, in conversation with Melissa Franklin, "What Is Dark Matter?"

Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health"

John W. Reid, in conversation with M.R. O'Connor "Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet"

Andrew Pontzen, "The Universe in a Box: Simulations and the Quest to Code the Cosmos" July 8, 2023

Bruce Schneier, "A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back"

Joshua N. Winn, "The Little Book of Exoplanets"

Alexander Rehding and Daniel Chua, "Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth"

Suzie Sheehy "The Matter of Everything"

David Kaiser, "Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World"

Adam Becker, "The Trouble with Quantum Physics, and Why It Matters"

Leonard Mlodinow, "Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking"

"Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior"

Kathryn Paige Harden, "The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality"

Rebecca Wragg Sykes, "Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art"

Alain Bécoulet, "Star Power: ITER and the International Quest for Fusion Energy"

Russell A. Poldrack, "Hard to Break: Why our Brains Make Habits Stick"

Carles Lalueza-Fox, in conversation with David Reich, "Inequality: A Genetic History"

W.A. Harris, "Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built"

Nicole Yunger Halpern, "Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow"

Michael Dine, in conversation with Lisa Randall, "This Way to the Universe"

Harold McGee, in conversation with David Weitz, "Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells"

Jurgen Renn, "The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene"

The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens--and Ourselves

Matthew Cobb, in conversation with Kevin Davies, "As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age"

Harvard Science Book Talk: John Colapinto, "This is the Voice"

Venki Ramakrishnan, "The Quest for the Structure of the Biological Machine that Reads Our Genes"