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Wendy Zukerman: Science VS gimletmedia.com/show/science-vs/.com
From guns to octopuses, Wendy Zukerman looks to science (and the occasional grammarian) for answers
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: You’ve worked as a science journalist for a while— how’d you get interested in science?
starting enjoying the scientific process once I became a science journalist. I wanted to become a journalist, and I used to pitch political stories to the Australian papers. Thanks to the good judgment of their editors, they didn’t accept my pitches, which were pretty much the political rantings of a 20 year old. So I started pitching science stories.
PODSTER: How did the idea for Science Vs come about? WENDY: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation was looking for a science WENDY ZUKERMAN: I love telling science podcast, and I was approached by Kaitlyn Sawrey (now my senior producer at stories. They are beautiful and exciting Gimlet Media!). Kaitlyn was producing stories that are trying to explain how the world works. But I wasn’t always interested new podcasts for the ABC, and she’d seen my work. It was about the time in science. I rote learned science through when there were reports that Gwyneth high school and university—and only 12
SEPTEMBER 2016