Flora Lichtman is host of Science Friday, a science show broadcast nationally on over 500 public radio stations, and on all podcast platforms. Previously, Flora created and hosted Gimlet’s Every Little Thing, a listener call-in podcast that ran for 200 episodes, averaging a million monthly downloads. She was nominated for an Emmy for her writing on Netflix’s Bill Nye Saves the World, and again for the New York Times Op-Doc video series she co-directed, Animated Life. She got her start at a NATO oceanographic lab in Italy, where she sailed around the Mediterranean looking for whales. (A good gig.)

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