Carl Zimmer: Safety Carl Versus Gamera
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Science writer Carl Zimmer grew up loving monster movies, but he never guessed a real monster would show up in his own backyard. Carl Zimmer is a columnist for the New York Times. He's the author of a dozen books, including Parasite Rex and Evolution: Making Sense of Life. He has won prizes for his writing from the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. Zimmer has appeared on radio shows such as This American Life and Radio Lab. Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: http://www.patreon.com/thestorycollider
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | It 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, I'm Ben Lilley, and welcome to The Story Collider, where we bring your true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:32.2 | This week's story is from Carl Zimmer as part of our four-year anniversary celebration. |
| 0:36.9 | The story was recorded in May 2014 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. |
| 0:45.3 | So for me and my friends who were growing up in the 1970s, there were two words that would make our |
| 0:58.6 | heart's leap. Monster week. You see, because our local channel, a TV channel, every now and then |
| 1:08.8 | would set aside a week where every afternoon we could come home from grade school |
| 1:13.8 | and there would be a Japanese monster movie on. |
| 1:17.7 | And this was heaven. |
| 1:19.5 | We'd watch Godzilla, but you know, you have to go past Godzilla |
| 1:22.9 | to fill up five days of afternoon movies. |
| 1:26.2 | And one monster would be more ridiculous than the next, you know, |
| 1:29.8 | so there would be giant moths that shot lightning bolts out of their wings. But for me, |
| 1:39.8 | my favorite monster, in my opinion, the most ridiculous monster was Gamera. |
| 1:47.0 | I don't know how many of you remember Gamera. |
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