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Meet Flora Lichtman | Los Angeles Wildfires Stoked By Santa Ana Winds

Science Friday

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

Life Sciences, Wnyc, Science, Earth Sciences, Natural Sciences, Friday

4.55.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

After her SciFri internship 20 years ago, Flora went on to become a beloved science journalist, video producer, and podcaster. Now she’s back! Also, several different fires are causing extreme damage in the Los Angeles area. Strong Santa Ana winds are one factor behind their rapid spread.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Listener supported WNYC Studios.

0:11.8

This is Science Friday.

0:13.3

I'm Ira Plato.

0:14.6

Before we get to our usual science news,

0:16.9

I have some other really big news to share with you this week. And that is we are adding a host.

0:24.7

Flora Lickman is joining me as host on Science Friday. Flora is here. So happy to have you here with me.

0:31.7

Hi, Ira. I am thrilled to be here with you. Yeah, we're thrilled to have you. You know,

0:37.2

your longtime sci-fi listeners may remember Flora years ago.

0:41.1

She was our video editor, often came on the show to do the video pick of the week like this one.

0:49.1

Time now for our video pick of the week, Flora Lickman, our multimedia editor is here.

0:54.1

And I know what you have in store because I've looked at this video and it's unbelievable.

0:59.7

I know.

1:00.3

I right.

1:00.7

This is a video that I don't actually think we could oversell if we tried.

1:05.6

This is like this is a run.

1:07.7

Don't walk to your laptop or desktop computer video because it's really your mind's

1:12.9

going to be blown. It's going to be great. Okay, now tell us what it is that we're going to be

1:16.3

blind. Now that you're primed, it's about cephalopods, which are squid, octopus, and cuttlefish.

1:22.9

And it's about how they camouflage. Yes, where's the octopus, a classic.

1:29.8

Where's the octopus film, if I remember it?

1:32.6

That one is one of your most popular.

1:35.7

I know it's been seen more than a million times,

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