Ainissa Ramirez: Science Vs Football
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2014
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Materials scientist Ainissa Ramirez never connected with her brothers' love of football until she unexpectedly ends up writing a book about it. Ainissa G. Ramirez, Ph.D. is a science evangelist, who is passionate about getting the general public excited about science. She co-authored Newton's Football (Random House) and authored Save Our Science (TED Books). She has appeared on NPR and CNN; gave a TED talk in 2012; and blogs for The Huffington Post. She was a mechanical engineering professor at Yale for ten years, and received her doctorate in materials science from Stanford. Based in New Haven, CT, she is currently writing a book on the impact of technology on humans.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.8 | Is NYU a scientist the... |
| 0:06.6 | I felt... |
| 0:07.4 | I was so... |
| 0:08.6 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:09.6 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.8 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:28.7 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:33.9 | A quick note, we have shows coming up in Boston, London, New York, and a special event in the Bay Area. |
| 0:36.3 | Storycollider.org for more information. |
| 0:39.0 | This week's story is from Inisa Ramirez. |
| 0:44.9 | The story was recorded in July 2014 at Littlefield in Brooklyn as part of our sports science show. |
| 0:51.8 | So when my parents got divorced, it was just the four of us. My mom, my two younger brothers, |
| 0:58.8 | Dave and Mark, and myself. And growing up in Jersey City in the 70s, we didn't get to play |
| 1:05.1 | outside much. It was a little risky. So we kept ourselves occupied inside. And my brothers, they took a different approach |
| 1:13.1 | than I did. What they did is they watched a lot of television, and I just kind of hung out in my |
| 1:17.4 | room and brooded. Now, when I did emerge, I would hang out with them and we'd watch shows |
| 1:23.4 | like 3-21 contact, 6 million-dollar man. It was awesome. But the place where I couldn't really |
| 1:29.3 | reach them and connect was football. There were all these words and terminology that I didn't |
| 1:33.7 | understand. So we connected, but football was the place that I could not reach them. So I had this |
| 1:40.5 | dream at a very early age of being a scientist. And that dream led me to eventually |
| 1:45.0 | go and pursue a doctorate at Stanford in material science and engineering. And it's here |
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