Celebrating 11 Years: Our Founder's Favorites
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Story Collider co-founder Ben Lillie joins us on the podcast today to discuss some of his favorite stories from the past 11 years, and also share one of his own.
Part 1: Immunologist Sarah Schlesinger must try to save her mentor's life with his own work in cellular immunity.
Other stories that Ben highlighted in this episode: Saad Sarwana, Anna Rothschild, Rachel Yehuda.
Part 2: A teacher’s social experiment lands fifth-grade Ben Lillie in an ethical dilemma.
Find out more about Caveat, Ben's theater in New York City, here: caveat.nyc
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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 | It was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | ...theid... Hey, everyone. |
| 0:26.2 | Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm your host, Aaron Barker, and today I'm joined by what may be a familiar voice for a long time listeners. |
| 0:38.3 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Story Collider. I'm Ben Lilly. I haven't done that in ages. Hello. |
| 0:43.7 | You can't have your job back. Reflex. Reflex. Welcome Ben Lilly, Story Collider co-founder and |
| 0:50.2 | the original host of this podcast. Can you believe it's been 11 years? I mean, after this last year, |
| 0:56.4 | I just assumed it had been 20, but I'll take 11. No, I can't. It's, I have no sense of time anymore. |
| 1:03.8 | But 11 is a lot. I genuinely couldn't remember when we were setting this up if it was 11 or 13. |
| 1:10.0 | I don't know where I came up with 13. |
| 1:11.9 | I like that you knew it was one of those two numbers. Yeah, it was an odd number. That's how I remember |
| 1:16.0 | things. Ben and I just got done celebrating 11 years of StoryQuiter at yesterday's first |
| 1:21.5 | annual Proton Prom fundraiser. Thanks so much to everyone who attended and especially to everyone |
| 1:27.1 | who donated so generously. |
| 1:29.4 | When you think back over the past 11 years, Ben, what are some of the stories that stand out in your mind? |
| 1:35.7 | Jesus. |
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