One of Canada's best-known science popularizers, Jay Ingram is co-host and producer of Daily Planet, television's first daily science show. His Jay’s Journal is a well-known regular feature of that program.

Ingram hosted CBC Radio's science program Quirks And Quarks from 1979 to 1992, earning him two ACTRA Awards, including one for Best Host. During the '80s, he was also Contributing Editor to Owl Magazine.

He was been awarded the Royal Society of Canada McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science in 1984, the 1986 Sandford Fleming Medal from the Royal Canadian Institute for his work popularizing science, and the 2001 Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Additionally, Ingram was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2009. He holds five honorary doctorate degrees: from Carleton University, McGill University, McMaster, the University of Alberta and King’s College in Halifax, and is also a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Alberta.

Ingram has written eleven books, several of which have been best-sellers, with three winning Canadian Science Writers’ Awards. His latest is Daily Planet: The Ultimate Book of Everyday Science. He is an engaging, provocative speaker who can address complex, scientific issues in non-technical terms, making them interesting, relevant and accessible to a wide range of audiences.

1. Climate Change

2. Communicating Science

3. Evolution

4. Creativity

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