Bill Nye has been the public face of science and discovery for more than twenty years. Best known as the host of Emmy Award-winning PBS/Discovery Channel show Bill Nye the Science Guy, and current host of Netflix show Bill Nye Saves the World, Nye is a science educator, mechanical engineer, and New York Times bestselling author of Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation and Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World. He is the CEO of The Planetary Society, holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Cornell University, and has seven honorary doctorate degrees.

Corey S. Powell is the science editor of Aeon and former editor-in-chief of American Scientist and Discover. He is a visiting scholar at NYU's SHERP program and a writer for Popular Science and Scientific American.