The Story Collider celebrated its two-year anniversary with a show themed around #IAmScience—stories of twisted and unorthodox paths to careers in science. Since we could only have four stories in the event itself, we put together a short video featuring
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From the Orphanage to the Lab
Tom Haines went from a childhood spent in an orphanage during the 1930s and '40s to the head of the biochemistry department at City College, where he'd leave a lasting mark. All it took was a fly, a piano, and a little protozoan algae.
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Story Collider Founder and Producer Brian Wecht explains how he ended up becoming a physicist instead of a composer. Here's a hint: It all started with a girl.
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Working in the Shadow of the Bomb
Story Collider Founder and Producer Ben Lillie reveals the secret ritual every theoretical high-energy physicist must go through, a ritual that brought him to a 7-Eleven parking lot on a chilly March night five years ago.
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What Science Owes the Rodeo
The ratio of scientists to cattle in Runge, Texas, is one to thousands, Shelley DuBois writes. That one scientist is her father. In this remarkable tribute, Shelley tells the story of how her father went from wrangling cattle in the South Texas desert to researching cancer and traveling the world.
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Owning My Narrative
As a black woman who grew up in urban L.A., LaTisha Hammond struggles to accept the fact that her background is different from that of her fellow marine biology students—and her inspiration for her work doesn't feel as worthy as their Jacques Cousteau dreams.
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Interview: Carl Zimmer, Stories From the Parasite Hole
Story Collider's Ben Lillie talks with well-known science writer Carl Zimmer about the story he told on our stage in September, the role of storytelling in science, and how to talk about parasites on a date.
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Science in the Blood
Stuart Cantrill, the chief editor of Nature Chemistry, remembers how he fell in love with science—through his relationship with his father, who suffered from the debilitating genetic disorder hemophilia.
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Editor's Letter: I Am Science. Well, You Are, Anyway...
This month, as part of The Story Collider's two-year anniversary, we're featuring #IAmScience—stories of people's twisted and unexpected paths to lives in science. Story Collider magazine editor Erin Barker, who definitely did not expect to be working on science stories, shares her #IAmScience story.
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I Am Science
In May the Story Collider celebrates two years of personal stories about science—and we're doing it by declaring IAmScience. All through the month we'll be posting stories of people's twisted paths to lives in science, diverse and thrilling stories that span generations and challenge traditional ideas of who can be a scientist and what can inspire a scientist’s work. Follow on the magazine and podcast, and then come to our massive two-year celebration event: May 22 at the Bell House in Brooklyn.