Blending In: Stories about trying to belong
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers are scientists struggling to feel like they belong -- in and out of science.
Part 1: Neuroscientist Pardeep Singh feels more than out of place when he ends up as a contestant on The Bachelorette.
Part 2: When Thiago Arzua comes to the United States from Brazil to study science he doesn’t know how to fit in.
Pardeep Singh is a neuroscientist, podcaster, Brooklynite and the first Indian-American to ever get a rose on The Bachelorette.
Born and raised in Curitiba, Brazil, Thiago Arzua is now a postdoc at Columbia University. There, he studies how trauma can pass through multiple generations. Outside the lab, he helped create Black In Neuro, a non-profit organization aiming to diversify the neurosciences by celebrating and empowering Black scholars. He's also a triathlete and in the small amount of time remaining he paints.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt. |
| 0:07.0 | I felt. |
| 0:08.0 | 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 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.1 | I'm your host, Misha Gayevsky, and this week, our stories are about trying to blend in, both in and out of science. And not to get too abstract or |
| 0:40.3 | philosophical about it all, but I feel like sometimes trying to fit in or blend in with a group of |
| 0:45.5 | people is very much like a science experiment. You know, you have this hypothesis about how |
| 0:51.9 | things are going to go, you try things out, some fail, some succeed, |
| 0:57.1 | and then you draw some type of conclusion. Although, whenever I've tried to blend in somewhere, |
| 1:03.4 | I've never had much success in my experimentation. Like one time, I thought because I watched |
| 1:08.8 | Bend It Like Beckham, probably one too many times, I was going to become a soccer girl. |
| 1:15.2 | All the cool girls at school played soccer. |
| 1:18.0 | And so obviously, I wanted to be a cool girl. |
| 1:21.0 | So I decided I was going to try and fit in with them. |
| 1:24.0 | And so I signed up for the school soccer team. |
| 1:27.0 | And I was convinced I was going to be a natural at this game, mostly because I knew exactly what outfit I was going to wear. |
| 1:34.5 | So this plan was flawless. |
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