Lindsey Kratochwill

Digital Production Assistant

Lindsey Kratochwill is a digital production assistant at TheWeek.com where she edits podcasts and videos. She also co-hosts a podcast for Popular Science and has written for Popular Science, Fast Company, and The Guardian, among other publications. She's an unapologetic science nerd and an apologetic Floridian.

Will Ferrell gives the commencement address at USC.

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Anatomy of a commencement speech

Stephen Colbert gives a graduation speech at Wake Forest University

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Anatomy of a commencement speech

Republicans make weird video about Mitch McConnell.

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Fantastic Mr. Mitch McConnell

Senate Republicans created a weirdly twee video about Mitch McConnell

Taylor Swift is helping other artists with her celebrity status.

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It just takes some time

Taylor Swift ads are making people listen to Jimmy Eat World again

Florence Nightingale looks in on her patients

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A brief history of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing

Stills from health and hygiene PSA videos from the 1940s and 1950s

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I watched a bunch of PSAs from the 1940s. Here's what I learned.

An artist's interpretation of gravitational waves

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The enormous astronomical discovery that proved Einstein right, explained

Time lists Evelyn Waugh as a female author by accident.

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Lindsey Kratochwill

Anatomy of a commencement speech

Anatomy of a commencement speech

Senate Republicans created a weirdly twee video about Mitch McConnell

Taylor Swift ads are making people listen to Jimmy Eat World again

A brief history of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing

I watched a bunch of PSAs from the 1940s. Here's what I learned.

The enormous astronomical discovery that proved Einstein right, explained

Oops! Time lists Evelyn Waugh among female authors most read in college.