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.”
Jeanne Garbarino: "A double dose"
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!.”
