Bob Hirshon

Bob Hirshon has the distinction of having said, "I'm Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update" over 4000 times — more than any other human. Hirshon started Science Update in 1988, making him really old. His projects have won numerous awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Codie Award, and a passel of other honors, which Hirshon keeps in a worn but distinctive passel. His original music has been heard on Talk of the Nation: Science Friday and his humor was published in the Harper-Collins book May Contain Nuts.

Susanne Bard

Susanne Bard hails from Seattle, Washington. She has rarely been seen more than a stone's throw from a microphone over the past decade. After several years of recording bird song for a master's degree in animal behavior, she headed to Montana in 2001 to complete an M.F.A. in Science and Natural History Filmmaking. Susanne has written and produced nonfiction television programming for A&E Networks, Animal Planet, The History Channel, PBS, National Geographic, and Smithsonian Networks. She also lived and worked in Central America for two years, running an archaeological field camp in Belize and studying the songs of neotropical birds in Panama. Susanne now resides in Washington, D.C., where she enjoys playing the fiddle and volunteering at animal shelters.

Justin Warner

Justin Warner has written Science Update since 1993 and was the show's head writer and producer from 1994-1999. At last count, he had written at least 1,300 episodes; if you listened to all of these episodes consecutively, without pausing, you would almost certainly go insane. He was on the Peabody Award-winning writing staff of "Kinetic City Super Crew," the AAAS children's radio show, and has also contributed to a panoply of publications, from Popular Science and New Scientist to Dietary Supplement and Food Labeling News. He now lives in New York City, where he writes plays, musicals, and humor in between Science Updates. For more about Justin's other life, visit his website.