Joe Schwarcz is a professor of Chemistry and the Director of the Office for Science and Society at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He hosts a popular weekly phone-in radio show, makes numerous television appearances, frequently gives entertaining and educational public lectures, and writes a column for the Montreal Gazette. He has received many honors, including the American Chemical Society’s prestigious Grady-Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public. In 2005 he received the Royal Canadian Institute’s Sanford Fleming medal in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the promotion of knowledge and the understanding of science.