Anna Rothschild: Feeling love in your gut
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2013
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Anna Rothschild tells the most adorably gross love story you'll ever hear.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt... |
| 0:07.0 | 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, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:31.2 | This week's story is from Anna Rothschild. |
| 0:33.8 | The story was recorded in December 2012 at Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:39.3 | The theme of the event was, It Takes Guts. |
| 0:48.4 | When I was a freshman in college, I was basically your stereotypical pre-med science dork. While most people |
| 1:00.0 | were relishing their new freedom and maybe drinking for the first time and going to parties, |
| 1:05.0 | I was mostly sitting at home researching parasites that infect humans and possibly even memorizing their Latin names. |
| 1:15.3 | I was pretty much just obsessed with anything medical at all. So, for example, I broke my wrist |
| 1:21.4 | midway through my freshman year. And when it came time for me to have surgery, it was this pretty |
| 1:27.0 | invasive surgery. I asked my |
| 1:28.7 | surgeon if he'd actually let me stay awake during the procedure and just numb my arm so I could |
| 1:33.9 | watch the whole thing. As you can imagine, with these as my interests, I was not exactly the |
| 1:42.1 | most socially adept, especially when it came to boys. So the few times that I did find |
| 1:48.7 | myself at a party and a boy would come up to me and offer me a drink, we'd start talking, and all of a |
| 1:54.2 | sudden I'd find myself talking about tapeworms or something, which is not really what you should |
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