Abby Pond: A quiet moment
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2012
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
When her dad is diagnosed with cancer, Abby Pond is sent on a journey home, across the world, and into a new science. "He said, 'Why are you sitting here waiting for me to die. This is dumb.' So he kicked me out."
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:28.0 | A quick reminder, our next event is in New York, December 17th. |
| 0:31.7 | The theme is science and religion. See storycollider.org for more. |
| 0:36.7 | This week's storyteller is Abby Pond. |
| 0:39.5 | The story was recorded in November 2012 |
| 0:41.8 | at the Camden Head in London |
| 0:43.7 | as part of the spot-on science conference. |
| 0:46.5 | The theme of the event was Connections. |
| 1:00.3 | Rural Canada, I'm Canadian, if you can't tell by the accent, has a smell to it that kind of matches the seasons that you're in. Every place is a bit different and I've lived in a lot of |
| 1:05.8 | different places. But the larch needles and aspen leaves in Revelstoke, British Columbia, where I spent five years, I can smell them. |
| 1:13.9 | The maples outside my grandparents' house in New Brunswick, where I spent every Sunday afternoon for 15 years. |
| 1:19.5 | One whiff of fallen maple leaves, and I'm right back there. |
| 1:23.5 | This time you're walking through London, it takes me straight back. |
| 1:27.2 | Straight back to the outdoors, where most of my memories happen from my childhood. |
| 1:33.5 | And most of those great memories come from the time I spent with my dad. |
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