Abhishek Shah: Waste Disposal
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2016
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Abhishek Shah takes a simple job to pay for school--toxic waste disposal. Being a biomedical engineer, Abhishek Shah knows everything about physics, chemistry and biology. He applies the same fundamentals to his stand up comedy and storytelling to improve the chemistry with audience by applying the physics of joke structure. His intriguing experiences and fascinating background makes him a unique storyteller.
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| 0:37.4 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:40.3 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 0:42.3 | I felt... |
| 0:43.3 | I was so... |
| 0:44.3 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:45.3 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:48.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:50.3 | ...and... my side. |
| 1:03.4 | Hi, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 1:06.0 | This week's stories from Abyshech Shah. |
| 1:07.9 | It was recorded in December 2015 at Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:17.0 | I moved to United States a couple of years back for higher education to do my master's program here. |
| 1:26.6 | I remember when I came to the States, |
| 1:29.3 | I had to take a huge loan in order to fund my education. |
| 1:35.3 | In $1 is like $60 in India. |
| 1:39.3 | So the amount of loan I took was equivalent to feeding 10,000 hungry people for 10 years. That much |
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