Adam Foote: The Sea Urchin Massacre
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Adam Foote confronts the problem of obtaining sea urchins in land-locked Pittsburgh...during a polar vortex. Adam recently graduated with a Master's degree in Biology from Carnegie Mellon University, and he is very grateful to his sea urchin friends for getting him there. His first memory of science is when he took a long bath after a day in the woods and wondered why fingers prune up. When he is not explaining science to both willing and unwilling audiences, Adam enjoys cooking, which is chemistry for hungry people, and playing music, which is physics for the ears.
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| 0:33.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:36.2 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:37.9 | I felt... |
| 0:38.6 | I was so... |
| 0:40.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:40.9 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:44.1 | Because science was on my side. |
| 1:00.7 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 1:02.9 | This week's stories from Adam Foote. |
| 1:07.6 | It was recorded in October 2014 at the Rex Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:24.3 | I'm an evolutionary biologist, and I specifically study early development of different organisms. |
| 1:48.7 | So, like, the kinds of things that an embryo has to figure out how to do really early on, like what's what cells are going to be skin, what cells are going to be skeleton, what cells are going to become the mouth, all that stuff is really fascinating to me. And the the organism, the creature that I study to learn about all of this is a sea urchin. I don't know if everybody here knows what a sea urchin is. |
| 1:51.9 | There's a bit of a cartoon of one on my shirt right now. |
| 1:55.6 | They do not have eyes or a cute little mouth like this. |
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