The Story Collider
Whether we wear a lab coat or haven't seen a test tube since grade school, science is shaping all of our lives. And that means we all have science stories to tell. Every year, we host dozens of live shows all over the country, featuring all kinds of storytellers - researchers, doctors, and engineers of course, but also patients, poets, comedians, cops, and more. Some of our stories are heartbreaking, others are hilarious, but they're all true and all very personal. Welcome to The Story Collider!
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Ben Moskowitz: Cheating the snake
When Ben Moskowitz gets to take special classes i…
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Alex Brown: The nature of time and meningitis
Science writer Alex Brown's philosophical educati…
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Susannah Cahalan: Patient #217
Three years after a mysterious illness nearly dro…
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Elna Baker: Nerd day
Elna Baker's grade school reputation faces it's g…
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Justin Werfel: Robotics lessons from termites
A physicist decides that the best way to make pro…
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Seth Mnookin: Science vs. feelings in the fight...
Science writer Seth Mnookin set out to write a bo…
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Mike Nitabach: I was supposed to be a lawyer
As grad school for neuroscience wears on, Michael…
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Esther Perel: Science & sexuality
Esther Perel's career gets an unexpected boost fr…
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Mara Wilson: A love affair of a lifetime (with ...
As a kid, Mara Wilson is decidedly uninterested i…
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Meehan Crist: My mother's brain
When Meehan Crist was a child, her mother hit her…
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Daniela Schiller: A new last memory
Neuroscientist Daniela Schiller studies the emoti…
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Moran Cerf: Being dead while being alive
Moran Cerf's life is spun around when a computer …
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Andrew Revkin: My lucky stroke
When he begins showing strange symptoms on a jog …
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Sarah Everts: Bitten in a foreign country
While visiting Guatemala Sarah Everts is bitten b…
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Stuart Firestein: A mentor with a nose for science
After a career as a theater manager, Stuart Fires…
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Paula Croxson: When your grandmother forgets wh...
When Paula Croxson began to study memory as a neu…
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Jess Zimmerman: The Gorilla In the Room
Writer Jess Zimmerman discovers the dangers of da…
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Jon Ronson: A journalist interviews a robot
Journalist Jon Ronson is excited when he hears ab…
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Andre Fenton: The twisting road from basic brai...
André Fenton always wanted to do research at the …
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Robin & Samantha Henig: The rules of writing wi...
Robin Marantz Henig and her daughter, Samantha, d…
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Colin Jerolmack: How a sociologist became The P...
Colin Jerolmack was floundering in grad school un…
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Kelly & Zach Weinersmith: Two nerds fall in love
Biologist Kelly Smith and comic artist Zach Weine…
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Anica Rissi: Confessions of a fourth-grade scie...
Anica Rissi realizes the true purpose of her scie…
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Tara Clancy: A bartender from Queens learns the...
Tara Clancy's worry over making bad life choices …
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Heather Berlin: Can a scientist believe in life...
Her grandmother's death forces neuroscientist Hea…
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