Flora Lichtman

Producer

The Really Big Questions (TRBQ)

Flora Lichtman is a producer for The Really Big Questions.

I'm a science journalist living in New York. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Popular Science and in a number of film festivals.

I spent eight years working for Ira Flatow at PRI’s Science Friday — shooting, producing and editing hundreds of science videos and chatting about them on the air. I even got to host the 2-hour live radio show on several (desperate) occasions.

I'm the co-author of Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us — sadly a topic of deep personal interest.

The World

Octopuses and other cephalopods are masters of optical illusion

Cephalopod camouflage is amazing and mysterious and has to be seen to be believed. It may also be proof that human sight has a long way to go.

Octopuses and other cephalopods are masters of optical illusion
Neutron Star from NASA

We are all dead stars

We are all dead stars