When John Timmer inherits the heart condition that killed his mother, not even his PhD or career as a science writer can offer much reassurance.
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Of Ghosts & Scientists
When physicist Ferran Macia meets ghost hunter Cloe, he thinks she's crazy—until he begins helping her with her investigation and realizes they have more in common than he'd thought. This is a translation of a story originally performed in Spanish at The Story Collider's show at The Cervantes Institute.
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Adonis & the Bone Marrow
Hanuman Welch was forced to leave his man-child ways behind and grow up when his brother was diagnosed with cancer. Anna Karakalou illustrates this story from our podcast.
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The Frog Story
A high school student learns some uncomfortable truths about herself after her science project turns deadly.
Read MoreImmortal Popsicle: A Tale of DIY Cryonics
Emma Komlos-Hrobsky tells the story of Nederland, Colorado—a place where death is literally a party—and the man who started it all by storing his frozen dead grandfather in a Tuff Shed in his backyard. (Yes, really.)
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Death Becomes Me
Matthew Dicks died when he was twelve years old. And then, when he was seventeen years old, he died again.
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Inside the Monkey Lab
Guy Schaffer wanted to understand the brain, but the only job he could find was in a monkey lab—a lab where a monkey attack led to a deeper set of crises.
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Death
This month in The Story Collider's magazine, we examine Death—in stories that range from people's efforts to prevent it or reverse it, to the challenges involved in confronting it in laboratories or hospital rooms. We'll even present the story of one man who died twice—and lived to tell the tale.
How to Pronounce Death
As a medical student, Matthew Pantell learns a real-life lesson medical school couldn't prepare him for: how to pronounce someone dead.
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Editor's Note: A History of Physics & Souls
The best way to study things by going there, looking at them, and reporting back. A fact that makes death particularly challenging to understand. But as I was told, one Harvard physicist thought he had a way around that.
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