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Tricia Rose Burt: The fertility challenge

October 30, 2011

A 40-year old artist struggles with fertility treatments.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Tricia Rose Burt, infertility, Season 1, women's health

Carl Zimmer: Holes in the net

October 2, 2011

After a terrible loss, science writer Carl Zimmer goes to report from the South Sudan, surrounded by the world’s deadliest parasites.

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Tags Carl Zimmer, Season 1, grief, journalism, South Sudan, parasites

John Rennie: Aggression

August 14, 2011

A college course forces John Rennie to confront a furious rat, and himself.

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Tags John Rennie, career, research, rats, Season 1

Nicole Ferraro: A fight with(out) the inventor of the internet

July 31, 2011

Technology writer Nicole Ferraro finds the one person who can’t be contacted on the world wide web: its inventor.

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Tags Nicole Ferraro, Season 1, technology, internet, hero, journalism

Dave Ritz: The easiest 20 bucks

March 20, 2011

Dave Ritz finds volunteering for a study on jury selection easy, but the part after the study is another matter.

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Tags Dave Ritz, Season 1, study participant, social science

David Carmel: The coolest thing in the world

March 6, 2011

A neuroscientist tests the limits of wonder when his own father suffers a stroke.

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Tags David Carmel, neuroscience, Season 1, family, parents

Ben Lillie: The Impostor Heart Attack

December 12, 2010

For Ben Lillie, the terrors of grad school found expression in a form that no one had warned him about.

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Tags Ben Lillie, Story Collider founder, grad school, anxiety, Season 1

Michelle Dobrawsky: Love in a biophysics lab

October 10, 2010

The very first story on the Story Collider podcast.

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Tags Michelle Dobrawsky, Season 1, love, comedy, lab work

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