Baseline: Stories about starting points
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Part 1: Bioethicist Elizabeth Yuko tries to use her science training while reporting her sexual assault. Part 2: Engineering student Selam Gano returns to her father’s home country of Ethiopia with the hopes of providing clean water to the village where he grew up. Elizabeth Yuko is a bioethicist and writer, specializing in the intersection of popular culture and ethics. She is an experienced communications strategist both for political campaigns and academic research, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the UN-affiliated NGO the Global Bioethics Initiative, and as an external expert for the European Research Council. She has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Ms. Magazine, The Establishment, Playboy, Racked and The Advocate, among others. Yuko also hosts a comedy lecture show called Let's Get Ethical! at Q.E.D. in Queens, New York. Selam Gano is an MIT undergraduate studying Mechanical Engineering with Robotics. She also blogs professionally for MIT Admissions and around the internet. When not in class, she is an undergraduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab and the principal researcher for the Muti Water Project. Born in the United States to an immigrant family, she has her heritage in China and Ethiopia and speaks four languages. She has a passion for robots, international projects, and writing.
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| 0:00.0 | Twas the night before Christmas when all through our home, friends were waiting for drinks at the party we'd thrown. |
| 0:07.2 | With an espresso martini mixer from Fever Tree, all you need to add is the vodka, you see. |
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| 1:05.7 | A science story, huh? |
| 1:08.9 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 1:10.5 | I felt... I felt... |
| 1:11.4 | I was so... |
| 1:12.7 | And I just thought, well... |
| 1:13.6 | It was that golden moment. |
| 1:16.8 | Because science was on my side. |
| 1:24.7 | Hi, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 1:30.6 | Our first story this week is from Elizabeth Yucco. |
| 1:33.2 | It was recorded in simpler times on November 4, 2016 at the Crane Theater in New York as part of the Gotham Storytelling Festival. |
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