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Sally Helm

Host and Senior Producer, Unexplainable

Sally Helm is a host and senior producer for Vox’s science podcast, Unexplainable. She has previously reported for NPR’s economics podcast Planet Money, and hosted the HISTORY Channel’s weekly podcast HISTORY This Week. Sally especially enjoys covering psychological mysteries and the complexities of human connection. She has an MFA in fiction writing from Brooklyn College and a BA from Yale University, and she studied podcast-making at the Transom Story Workshop.

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Botox is a toxin. It’s also an ubiquitous medical treatment.

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