Rachel Feltman

Rachel Feltman’s first paying gig was organizing a bookshelf full of textbooks on vulvar disease at the age of seven, and she never looked back. She’s executive editor of Popular Science and hosts PopSci’s podcast The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week. In 2014, Feltman founded the Washington Post’s Speaking of Science blog, known for headlines like “You Probably Have Herpes, but That’s Really Okay” and “Uranus Might Be Full of Surprises.” Feltman studied environmental science at Simon’s Rock and has a master’s in science reporting from New York University. She’s a musician, an actress, and the stepmom of a very spry fifteen-year-old cat. You can sometimes catch her officiating roller derby bouts as Carl Slaygan.