For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman.
You may recall that during one of our News Roundup episodes last month,
I mentioned a new study on microplastics in the human brain.
That study also caught the attention of Scientific American's chief Opinion editor,
Megha Satyanariana.
She featured it in her weekly column, Cross Currents,
where she dives into pressing issues related to health and the environment.
Meg is here to chat with us today about that February column titled,
why Aren't we Losing our minds over the plastic in our Brains?
She's also here to tell us more about the Scientific American opinion section and what their work is all about.
Megha, thanks so much for coming on to chat.
I would love to hear a little bit about what you do at Scientific American.
I'm the chief Opinion editor at Scientific American,
and the department does this kind of cool and unique thing and
that we publish opinions from experts in different fields about things that are happening in science,
things that are happening in society, and where those two things overlap.
We also publish opinion pieces that are staff written,
including some that are written by me and some that are written by Dan Vergano.
Dan Vergano is a senior opinion editor at Scientific American.
He works with me on all of our opinion pieces, and he's also the writer of a column called Art.