Adam Wade: Volcanic chemistry
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2012
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In high school, Adam Wade falls for his lab partner, but is led astray by dreams of golf team greatness.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt... |
| 0:08.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, 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. |
| 0:30.3 | A quick reminder, we have events coming up in Boston on December 4th and in New York on November 29th and December 17th. |
| 0:37.6 | See Storycollider.org for more. |
| 0:40.6 | This week's storyteller is Adam Wade. |
| 0:43.1 | The story was recorded in October 2012 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 0:47.9 | The theme of the event was chemistry. |
| 0:59.8 | So I am from New Hampshire. |
| 1:04.6 | I know, I know, I know. |
| 1:13.4 | My junior in high school, my claim the fame, what I was known for, was at lunchtime, my mother would always pack my lunches and I would get two Twinkies and individual rappers. And I'd eat one. And |
| 1:18.9 | then I'd make like a big production towards the end of the period of lunch and I'd run around |
| 1:23.5 | and then I would just smash the other Twinkie. And my friends would be like, oh, |
| 1:29.2 | and then one of my friend fetus, he was like, |
| 1:31.3 | he would hold it up, like, the carnage. |
| 1:36.1 | And that was like my thing. |
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