Challenges: Stories about challenges we didn't know we needed to face
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week we present two stories from people who experienced challenges in their travels.
Part 1: Transporting virginal fruit flies from Houston to Honolulu proves to be no easy task for Patricia Savant.
Part 2: When a storm rocks the cruise ship where he works, Mike Funergy worries about how the elderly passengers will handle it.
Dr. Patricia Shaw Savant has a Ph.D. In Counseling Psychology and Behavioral Medicine from North Texas State University (1986) and a Masters of Arts in psychophysiology from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She currently has a private practice in psychotherapy in Clayton, MO. She practices under the name Patricia Shaw, Ph.D. With Phoenix Psychological Group, Inc. Dr. Shaw also provides counseling and support at music festivals as part of Harm reduction and Medical services. At the time of her story she was an undergraduate at the University of Houston in biology and chemistry.
Mike Funergy first discovered his love for storytelling while wandering the markets of Morocco and watching old storytellers captivate the crowd. Upon returning to Canada he discovered the Toronto Storytelling Festival and found a new appreciation for folklore and mythology, and especially loves tales from the Jewish tradition. He now tells stories at the Vancouver Story Slam, and has made it to the finals for the past 2 years. Mike has studied Expressive Arts Therapy, and currently works for a non-profit organization helping adults with developmental disabilities discover what they want to do in their lives.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:07.0 | It felt right. |
| 0:08.0 | I 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. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm your host, Aaron Barker, and this week we're presenting stories about the challenges science can sometimes pose for us. |
| 0:36.7 | Whether it's about making it through a storm |
| 0:38.7 | on the high seas or transporting virginal fruit flies, as the case may be. Our first story today is |
| 0:45.1 | from Patricia Savant. It is recorded in October 2018 at the Ready Room in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 0:51.2 | The theme that night was Uncharted Territory. |
| 0:57.0 | On a morning in 1966, I woke up and I was so damn nervous with that kind of low in the belly fear that I couldn't |
| 1:15.6 | stop throwing up. |
| 1:17.6 | And the reason that I couldn't stop throwing up was because I was given the assignment |
| 1:25.6 | to fly from Houston to Honolulu to Hickham Air Force Base to set up a recovery lab for the very first NASA bio satellite. |
| 1:40.3 | I mean, that was big for me, kind of like overwhelming. |
| 1:46.0 | Because when I was hired onto this lab, it was something of a fluke. |
| 1:52.0 | You know, it's a genetics lab at Rice University. |
| 1:56.0 | I was a tech, no big deal. |
| 1:59.0 | And then I find out, no, I'm working for NASA and spaceflight and |
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