BONUS: Before and After: Stories that evolve over time
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this special BONUS episode, we unveil a brand-new addition to our podcast! To celebrate, we present new versions of classic stories from Story Collider’s directors and discuss how they have evolved since their original telling.
Part 1: As a marine biology student, Liz Neeley loves the order of science, but when a research expedition takes an unexpected turn, she must deal with the messy reality.
You can find the original version of Liz’s story here: https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2017/3/10/in-the-field-liz-neeley-heith-copes
Part 2: When Erin Barker is diagnosed with two chronic illnesses, she has to say goodbye to four of her favorite things.
You can find the original version of Erin’s story here: https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2016/1/6/erin-barker-oh-just-those-four-things
Liz Neeley is the executive director of Story Collider and new cohost of our podcast! She started her career studying the color patterns of tropical fish. (It was in fact even better than her childhood dream of working in a crayon factory.) She surprised herself more than anyone when she left the research path and went into ocean conservation and policy. For the past decade, she has been helping scientists around the world tell more compelling stories about their work. Most recently, she helped commission and edit the 2018 series "Stories from the Front Lines" at PLOS Biology. She is a lecturer at Yale in conjunction with the National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative. Follow her on Twitter @LizNeeley.
Erin Barker is the artistic director of Story Collider and cohost of its weekly podcast. As a storyteller, she is the first woman to win The Moth's GrandSLAM storytelling competition twice. She has appeared on PRX's The Moth Radio Hour, and one of her stories was included in The New York Times-bestselling book The Moth: 50 True Stories. Though she hasn’t been officially sorted, she identifies as a Gryffindor. Follow her on Twitter @ErinHBarker.
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| 0:31.8 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:34.9 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:36.7 | I felt... I was so... |
| 0:38.3 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:39.3 | I figured it out. |
| 0:40.3 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:42.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:45.3 | Hey, everybody. Hey everybody, welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 1:00.9 | I am your host, Aaron Barker, and may I introduce to you, my co-host, executive director of Story Collider, the one and only, Liz Neely. |
| 1:10.4 | Hello! |
| 1:12.4 | That's right. |
| 1:13.5 | Liz is going to be joining me as co-host on our podcast episodes going forward, and I'm |
| 1:18.8 | really psyched about it. |
| 1:20.3 | As am I? |
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