About Jay Ingram

Jay Ingram is a Canadian science journalist, author and broadcaster. He has been host of the television show Daily Planet (originally titled @discovery.ca), which airs on Discovery Channel Canada, since the channel's inception in 1995, and is the former host of the CBC Radio show "Quirks and Quarks."

Jay has written of several bestselling books including Talk, Talk, Talk: Decoding the Mysteries of Speech, The Science of Everyday Life, The Velocity of Honey: And More Science of Everyday Life and The Burning House: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Brain, which won the 1995 Canadian Science Writers Book Award. Ingram's most recent popular science book is titled Theatre of the Mind: Pulling Back the Curtain on Consciousness published by Harper Collins in October 2005.

Ingram earned a master's degree in microbiology from the University of Toronto. He has also been awarded honorary degrees from three different Canadian universities (Carleton, McGill and McMaster), and his books have been awarded three Canadian Science Writers' Awards.

In January 2006, Ingram launched Jay Ingram's Theatre of the Mind, a podcast inspired by his most recent book. The weekly program was co-hosted and produced by performer and blogger David Newland.