Allison Hartshorn: Common Ground
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2014
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A relationship bridging the divide between scientists and artists is reflected in a fight over where to store tomatoes. Alison graduated with a BSc in Astrophysics from Newcastle University. Leaving for London to seek her fortune, she worked for several years in building services engineering in investment banks; first as an operations manager and then as a consultant. She left this career to pursue her love of physics, completing a Masters in Space Science and a PhD in solar physics at UCL. She is now at Queen Mary looking after outreach and student recruitment for maths and physics. Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: http://www.patreon.com/thestorycollider
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a 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. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, everyone. Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.4 | A quick note, we have shows coming up in New York, Boston, London, and Brunswick, Maine. |
| 0:35.4 | Storycollider.org for more information. |
| 0:38.4 | This week's stories from Alison Hartshorn. |
| 0:40.5 | The story was recorded in October 2013 |
| 0:42.9 | at October Gallery in London. |
| 0:45.6 | It was part of the Inside Out Festival. |
| 0:51.5 | Okay, Fab. Okay, so my story is about love and tomatoes. |
| 1:03.8 | And as with any story where there's two elements to it, I think I should do it in priority order. |
| 1:09.2 | So I'm going to start with the tomatoes first. And the thing about tomatoes is that my husband has a thing about the way that we |
| 1:20.2 | store tomatoes in our house. So my husband's actually here. My husband's name's Nick. He's in the |
| 1:26.1 | audience, just there, embarrassed. |
| 1:29.2 | But yeah, so I think he knows what I'm going to say. |
| 1:32.3 | So a few months ago, my husband read an article, a scientific article, that said about tomatoes |
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