Andrew Revkin: My lucky stroke
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2013
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
When he begins showing strange symptoms on a jog though the mountains, science writer Andrew Revkin discovers just how close to death he is.
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:33.2 | I felt... |
| 0:33.9 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.4 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:48.3 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm Ben Lilly. |
| 0:50.2 | And welcome to the Story Collider, |
| 0:51.7 | where we bring your true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:56.0 | This week's story is from Andrew Revkin. The story was recorded in March 2013 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 1:03.0 | The theme of the event was Brain Awareness. |
| 1:10.0 | So when I was a kid, I wanted to be a scientist, but then, actually, a marine biologist, |
| 1:14.6 | and actually at one point briefly an MD, but then I learned later from my sister-in-law, |
| 1:20.1 | much later, she teaches learning disabled kids, and she said, you're way too ADHD to get |
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