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Town Hall Seattle: Science Series

Town Hall’s Science series is dedicated to understanding the world around us. Whether we’re hearing from a legendary physicist or a UW graduate student, the Science series explores math, biology, chemistry, the environment, and so much more.

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Oct 29, 2018

Whether it’s the fluid grace of a slithering snake, the tenacity of a multi-body ant bridge, or the intermittent flitting of a water strider across the surface of a pond, animal movements constantly fascinate us. Scientists have learned a great deal from observing animal locomotion, and more than one mechanical...


Oct 22, 2018

The genomic revolution is transforming our understanding of modern humans. Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in genomics, which is proving to be as important a field as archeology or linguistics for understanding our ancestry. Reich arrived at Town Hall to enlighten us with provocative research...


Oct 8, 2018

The United States has long been the global leader in Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid pace. He joined us with insight from his provocative book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley,...


Oct 1, 2018

Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships that bind the human and natural worlds. Environmentalist and author Thor Hanson took to Town Hall’s stage to share a critical wisdom from his book Buzz: The Nature and...