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This week’s Story Collider podcast: In the IBM pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair, Jamy Ian Swiss encounters a computer that reveals a piece in personality, although maybe not in the way it’s inventor intended.
“I was outraged, with all the moral outrage an 11 year old can muster.”
As a teenager, Daily Show writer Hallie Haglund had a complicated relationship with her English teacher — one that became even more complicated when they ventured into the wild.
“I could never understand the bizarre signals she was sending me, but the fact that she was sending them at all made me feel so visible.”
In which I tell a story about taking a pregnancy test, giving birth, and perspective.
Grade-schooler (and future America's Next Top Model contestant) Ebony Haith uncovers a shocking secret behind her new special school.
Matt Mercier was failing high school physics, until he started dating a girl whose father was a physics teacher.
Allison Downey and her husband engage in the classic nature vs. nurture debate -- with their own son.
Lou Serico's childhood dream of being a scientist is tested by working in a herpes lab for his PhD.
“Clearly I have a lifelong destiny of researching biological punch lines.”
How do you get the right background to be blogs editor at Scientific American? For Bora Zivkovic it started with raising horses in Belgrade.
“Why was I thinking about the rings of Saturn while I was hanging for dear life on top of a twelve-hundred-pound horse?”
A 40-year old artist struggles with fertility treatments.
“I'm mostly terrified of two things: One, having a baby and all of the freedom I'll lose, and two, not having a baby, and all the joy that I will miss.”
A musician and performer is given a behind-the-scenes tour of the British Natural History Museum.
“Your mind just caves in and you want to eat your face, because there's a Coelacanth right there!.”
This week's Story Collider podcast:
Amanda Marcotte: De-evolutionary psychology
A political blogger learns about science the fun way: by tearing apart bad evolutionary psychology studies.
“I was the only kid in the class who tore into the book and criticized it... and I was the only one who go an A.”
This week's podcast: Daniela Schiller: As good as our last memory
A neuroscientist looks to her own research to understand her father. (Developed in conjunction with The Moth.)
Fundraiser special: The origin story
Story Collider producers Erin Barker, Ben Lillie, and Brian Wecht sat in a room and talked about where The Story Collider came from, what Erin originally thought of it. Also: why you should donate to keep it going.
The Story Collider online magazine
When Ben and Brian first started The Story Collider over a year ago, their goal – aside from putting on a kick-ass show, of course – was to make science real and relatable for everyone. To do that, they needed to get as many different voices as possible involved. They wanted the most diverse perspectives, and the most original stories about the way science affects our lives, reaching the widest possible audience.
Since then, The Story Collider has presented stories from 120 different storytellers and produced 50 podcasts, selling out venues in New York and D.C., and attracting attention from The Wall Street Journal, BBC Travel, and Nature magazine.
Now we're taking it one step further.
This December, The Story Collider is launching an online magazine through its website. We're all very excited about this because not only will it enable us to gather stories from previously untapped sources – i.e. the microphone-shy, and those who don't live in New York City or any of the other cities we've put on shows – but it will also help us tell stories in new ways, to new audiences.
We need your help to get started.
This is what we're looking for:
Personal stories about how your life has been affected by science – similar to those from our stage show, but longer and more in-depth (approximately 2,000-4,000 words)
Stories about how someone else's life has been affected by science. Maybe you know someone who's had an amazing experience and you'd like to interview them and write their story.
Stories in visual form – from photographs to art to comics.
If you have an idea for a science story you'd like to share, we'd love to hear from you. Send me your pitch at [email protected].
Erin Barker
After a terrible loss, science writer Carl Zimmer goes to report from the South Sudan, surrounded by the world's deadliest parasites.
Fundraising time (with comics)!
The Story Collider is running our first fundraising campaign!
This project started as a hobby, run in our spare time, and paid for out of pocket. We need resources to find new ways to discover these stories, and new ways to get them out into the world. And that takes support.
And for your support, you can get some really cool thank-yous. If you give $50 or more, you'll get a book of four Story Collider stories, illustrated by some of our amazing artist friends:
Margot Leitman's "AIDS Cookie," illustrated by Lena Chandhook.
Erik Hofer's "Growing a Monster," illustrated by Paul Swartz.
David Dickerson's "Innocence," Illustrated by Joe Weirenga.
John Rennie's "Agression," illustrated by Maki Naro. (Excerpted up yonder.)
Magician Nelson Lugo is faced with his own grandmother's powers.
