Flora Lichtman is host of The Adaptors podcast and former SciFri multimedia producer in New York, New York.
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Fess Up: We’re Taking Your ‘Climate Confessions’
Do you have a predilection for beef? Forget to flick off the lights? Or maybe you're a much-too-frequent flier? Call in to confess your climate sins.
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#CephalopodWeek: Celebrating All Things Tentacled
They're the amazing cephalopods, and Science Friday, public radio's source for news and entertaining stories about science, celebrates them with Cephalopod Week.
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The Other Golden Rule
Did you know that most mammals, from a house cat to an elephant, take roughly the same amount of time to urinate?
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Engineering in Service of a Dark Art
A biologist takes shadow puppetry to the next level.
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DIY Summer Hacks, From the Pool to the Grill
Try your hand at homemade sunscreen, water bottle rockets, and "cooler corn."
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Give Yourself A Hand With DIY Gripper
What high-tech materials are required for making a robotic hand that can pick up almost anything? Coffee grounds and a latex balloon.
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Desktop Diaries: Jill Tarter
"People have described my office as an eight-year-old's daydream," says SETI scientist Jill Tarter.
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Desktop Diaries: Jill Tarter
As the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute's first employee, Tarter has accumulated E.T.-themed office ornaments for the last 30 years—including a bottle of wine to be opened "only upon detection of Extraterrestrial signal."