Break Ups: Stories about the end of a relationship

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4.4 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Matters of the heart aren’t usually associated with science, but in this week’s episode, both of our storytellers turn to science to cope with heartbreak. Part 1: When Anna Peterson gets dumped she takes a job with two national wildlife refuges in remote Alaska to prove to her ex he made a mistake. Part 2: When Moiya McTier’s fiancé breaks up with her weeks before their wedding, she turns to the Milky Way to heal. Anna Peterson is originally from Colorado, but has called Atlanta home for nearly 2.5 years. She obtained her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2019 from the University of Tennessee, and has studied parasites and pathogens in everything from salamanders to rats to humans. In her free time, she enjoys hanging out with her dog Hank, running long distances very slowly, and discovering the city of Atlanta by bicycle. Dr. Moiya McTier is an astrophysicist, folklorist, and science communicator. After graduating as Harvard’s first student to double major in astrophysics and mythology, Moiya earned her PhD in astronomy at Columbia University. Moiya’s mission is to help people better understand the world around them through science and facts. She does that through her podcasts Exolore and Pale Blue Pod, a mythology show for PBS called Fate & Fabled, and her hit book THE MILKY WAY: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A science story, huh?
0:04.0	Is NYU scientist the...
0:06.0	I felt it right.
0:08.0	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 Clider.
0:26.3	Where true personal stories about science help us to discover how weird and wonderful it is to exist in this world and be a human.
0:33.8	I'm your host, Misha Gayevsky, and this week we're exploring the wild things we do after being dumped
0:38.7	and the creative ways we humans deal with breakups.
0:42.5	Our first story is from Anna Peterson.
0:44.5	Anna studies parasites and pathogens and everything from salamanders to rats to humans.
0:49.8	In her free time, she enjoys hanging out with her dog Hank and running long distances very slowly.
0:55.6	Her story was recorded at our go-to spot in Atlanta, Waller's coffee shop, and her story is all about those sometimes rash decisions we make after a breakup.
1:03.8	You know, like giving yourself bangs or signing up to run a marathon in less than a month.
1:08.9	Here's Anna.
1:19.4	Yeah. marathon in less than a month. Here's Anna. I'm lying in my tiny little bed, in my tiny little bedroom, staring up at the ceiling,
1:25.7	and I'm having a lot of feelings. I feel nervous and afraid
1:31.8	and excited and hopeful, and it's just all welling in my chest, and I just can't keep it in anymore,
1:37.8	and I whisper out into the dark how much I love this person that's lying here next to me.
1:48.0	And I hear the sound of my heart and my breath and that deeply uncomfortable silence of somebody pretending to be asleep.
1:54.0	But I am undeterred because I am in love.
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