Fatal Flaws by Jay Ingram

From 1995 through 2011, Jay Ingram hosted Discovery Channel Canada's Daily Planet. It was the world's only hour-long, prime-time daily science show when it debuted in 1995. Jay presented Quirks and Quarks, a national science show on CBC Radio from 1979 to 1992, before joining Discovery. He worked as a contributing editor for Owl magazine and also authored a scientific piece for the Toronto Star on a weekly basis. Jay is the author of 11 New York Times best-selling books, including The Daily Planet Book of Amazing Ideas and Speak, Talk, Talk.

Ingram was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2009 for his contributions to making complicated science more accessible to the general public, as well as his mentoring of future generations of science journalists. For his efforts to popularize science, he has earned the Royal Canadian Institute's Sandford Fleming Medal, the Royal Society's McNeil Medal for Public Understanding of Science, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's Michael Smith Award. He holds five honorary doctorates and is a prominent graduate of the University of Alberta.