Food Network, Science Channel and now Ignite Wilmo!
Adam Ruben is a writer, comedian, storyteller, and molecular biologist from Wilmington.  He has appeared on the Food Network’s “Food Detectives,” the Science Channel’s “Head Rush,” and NPR’s “All Things Considered.”  He is the author of “Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School”(Random House, 2010) and writes the humor column “Experimental Error” in the otherwise respectable journal Science.  In addition to performing stand-up comedy at clubs, colleges, and private venues across the country, Adam has told stories on stage with Speakeasy DC, Mortified, Baltimore’s Stoop Storytelling, Story League, and other groups; his story about a Scrabble tournament was recently selected as one of Speakeasy DC’s top eight storiesof 2011 and will appear in their Top Shelf show on December 3.  Adam received his Ph.D. in Biology from Johns Hopkins University in 2008, where he also taught a class called “Public Perception of Science” as a Lecturer in the Expository Writing Program, and where he currently teaches a course called “The Stand-Up Comic in Society.”  His first one-man show, “Please Don’t Beat Me Up:  Stories and Artifacts from Adolescence,” was called a “Pick of the Fringe” at the Capitol Fringe Festival this summer and later appeared at the Fringe Wilmington Festival.  Adam currently lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and their daughter.
