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Rachel Feltman
Rachel Feltman’s first paying gig was organizing a bookshelf full of medical textbooks on vulvar disease at the age of seven, and she hasn’t looked back since. She runs science and health coverage for Popular Science Magazine, and also hosts and produces Popular Science’s podcast ‘The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week’. As of December 2019, the show boasted more than 36,000 weekly listeners, and has had a run of sold-out live shows at Caveat in New York City.
In 2014 Feltman founded the Washington Post’s irreverent ‘Speaking of Science’ blog, which is known for such widely shared headlines as ‘You probably have herpes, but that’s really okay’, and ‘Uranus might be full of surprises’. She believes that breaking down fear and stigma is the best way to help people gain scientific literacy and take control of their own health, and she believes that the best way to break down fear and stigma is to make as many fart jokes as humanly possible.
Feltman appears regularly on ‘Cheddar’, ‘Science Friday’ and MSNBC to comment on science news, and has been a speaker at the annual meetings of the National Association of Science Writers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Online News Association, as well as the International Conference on High Energy Physics, the World Conference of Science Journalists, and the World Government Summit in Dubai.
Feltman has a degree in environmental science from Bard College at Simon’s Rock and a masters in science, health and environmental reporting from New York University.
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