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"

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

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

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

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

Katie Mack, "The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)"

Marcus du Sautoy, "Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life"

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

Jim Al-Khalili, "The Joy of Science"

Stephen Fleming, "Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness"

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

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

James Gates, Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe

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

Antonio Damasio, "Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sean Carroll, "Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe"

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

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

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

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