Anna Nicanarova: Playing Sick
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2016
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Anna Nicanarova pretends to be sick to get out of a test, but how far will she take the ruse? Anna Nicanorova is Director of Annalect Labs -- space for experimentation and rapid prototyping within Annalect. Anna is Co–Founder of Books+Whiskey meetup and volunteer with ScriptEd (Science Skill Center High School). She holds an MBA from University of Pennsylvania -- The Wharton School and BA from Hogeschool van Utrecht. Her life is very rigorously tracked and visualized through Annual Quantified Self reports. In her free time she can be found art-hunting in museums or climbing tall mountains (aspiring to finish 7 Summits by 2020).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, all. A couple of quick notes before the show today. First, we've been using a very old podcasting method, and we just switched over to a new one. |
| 0:06.9 | The good news is that all our archives are now available on the feed, something a lot of people have been asking for. |
| 0:11.9 | The bad news is that for a few of you, depending on your settings, all of those episodes might have auto-downleted. Sorry about that. |
| 0:18.0 | It's a one-time thing with a switchover, so if you delete them, it won't happen again. |
| 0:22.6 | The second thing is that we have a special show coming up in New York City on January 15th as part of Stemfest at the Crane Theatre in the East Village. |
| 0:31.6 | We'll have radio host Mike Pesca from Slates the Gist, Astronomer Summer Ash, neuroscientist Paula Croxon, nuclear physicist Sadsarwana, and Frank Kennedy, the winner of Slate's The Gist, Astronomer Summer Ash, neuroscientist Paula Croxon, nuclear physicist |
| 0:38.7 | Sad Sarwana, and Frank Kennedy, the winner of Slate magazine's first ever storytelling competition. |
| 0:45.0 | Go to storyclider.org for more details. That's 8 p.m. Friday, January 15th in Manhattan. |
| 0:54.1 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:57.0 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 0:59.0 | It felt... |
| 1:00.0 | I was so... |
| 1:01.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 1:02.0 | It was that golden moment... |
| 1:05.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 1:07.0 | ...theid... on my side. |
| 1:20.3 | Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lully, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 1:22.6 | This week's stories from Anna Nakanova. |
| 1:24.4 | It was recorded in December 2015 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 1:39.1 | I was always in love with science. When I was a little girl, I used to prototype spaceships out of Legos. |
| 1:46.0 | When I grew up, I started prototyping software. But I did take a break from science when I was a teenager. |
| 1:53.0 | You see, there are more important things on the mind of a 15-year-old girls in science. |
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