Annalee Newitz: Honoring The Dead
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2014
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Annalee Newitz comes to terms with grief while exploring the remains of a mysterious ancient city. Annalee Newitz is the editor of io9, and author most recently of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | ...theid... Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:31.5 | This week's stories from Annaline Newitz. |
| 0:33.7 | The story was recorded in October 2014 at the Rikshah stop in San Francisco, California, |
| 0:38.7 | as part of the Bay Area Science Festival. |
| 0:49.2 | So I'm just going to start with a confession, which is that the reason I became a science journalist is because I have this burning lust to visit as many scientific labs as possible. |
| 1:02.5 | And especially labs that are completely unique and could not exist anywhere but where they are. |
| 1:10.2 | So a few months ago, I was incredibly excited because |
| 1:14.2 | I had an opportunity to visit this archaeological dig in central Turkey, which is called |
| 1:20.0 | Chitalhoyuk. And it's the site of a Neolithic city where people lived about 9,000 years ago. |
| 1:27.3 | And I should say, I'm calling it a city, |
| 1:30.2 | but the reason why this site is so fascinating for archaeologists and why I was interested in it, |
| 1:36.1 | is that it's kind of in this weird place in between being a village and a city. And it's this |
| 1:44.1 | kind of lost moment in the history of cities. And it's this kind of lost moment in the history of cities, |
| 1:47.7 | and it's very unique. |
| 1:49.0 | It's a unique form of large-scale human settlement. |
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