Adam Ruben

Adam Ruben is an American writer, comedian, storyteller, science communicator, and molecular biologist. He is the Associate Director of Vaccine Stabilization & Logistics at Sanaria Inc., where he is helping to manufacture, license, and distribute a whole-organism malaria vaccine.Ruben is known for hosting the show Outrageous Acts of Science on the Science Channel, known outside the United States as You Have Been Warned and Loco Lab. He has also been seen and heard on the Food Networks Food Detectives, the Science Channels Head Rush, the Weather Channels Weather Gone Viral, the Travel Channels Mysteries at the Kremlin, Discovery Internationals Superhuman Science, the Science Channels How Do They Do It?, the documentary Mortified Nation, and NPRs All Things Considered and The Moth Radio Hour. He is the author of Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School (Random House, 2010), a satirical guide to post-baccalaureate education, and Pinball Wizards: Jackpots, Drains, and the Cult of the Silver Ball (Chicago Review Press, 2017), a narrative nonfiction book about the past, present, and future of pinball. Ruben is also known for writing the monthly science humor column Experimental Error in the AAAS journal Science Careers. Ruben frequently gives keynote lectures and performances about science, education, career-related topics, comedy, science communication, public perception of science, and performs his one-man show about bullying, Please Dont Beat Me Up: Stories and Artifacts from Adolescence.

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