The website curator started at NASA Langley in June 1983. He has also seen or heard almost all of the Colloquium talks given before that date. Here are ten of his favorite talks in reverse chronological order:

May 3, 2022. Why People Overrate their Competence and Performance  and Why Ignorance Fails to Recognize Itself by Professor David Dunning (video)

November 5, 2013. Open Plan Offices? Yes, No, and It Depends by Tonya Smith-Jackson

December 1, 2005. First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by Jim Hansen

March 2, 1999. Acoustics and the Violin – Past, Present, and Future, by Carleen Hutchins

July 20, 1994. The Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, Lunar Module, and Apollo Mission, by Dr. John C. Houbolt

August 17, 1992. United Flight 232: Coping with One in a Billion Odds, Captain Alfred C. Haynes, United Airlines, Retired.

January 23, 1989. Chemical Parables: How Nylon Stockings Won World War II, Dr. Dudley R. Herschbach, Dept. of Chemistry, Harvard University, Boston, MA.

October 20, 1981, A Morning with Eric Sevareid, Eric Sevareid, News Correspondent, Analyst, Columbia Broadcasting System, New York, NY.

January 29, 1979. Space and the Oceans, Captain Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer, Marine Biologist, Oceanographer, The Cousteau Society, New York, NY.

In a separate categories all their own are

July 19, 2022. 50th Anniversary Retrospective and Celebration (video)

December 6, 2011. At 40, NASA Colloquium Continues to Stimulate, Teach Narrated by Keith Henry, NASA Langley Newschief, retired.

A bottom ten list of least favorites is available upon request.