Chiara Mariottini: Lost in Translation
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2016
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Italian neuroscientist Chiara Mariottini struggles to fit in when she moves to New York City. Chiara Mariottini has a PhD in Neurophysiology from the University of Florence, Italy. She graduated at the end of 2007 and moved to NYC in January 2008. She is a pharmacist by training, but she’s been always fascinated by science and in particular by the brain. She is interested in how memories are maintained for a long time by our brains and how they can be altered by disease and removed during forgetting.
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| 0:46.4 | as we plan for next year thanks a science story, huh? |
| 0:56.1 | Is NYU scientist the... I felt... |
| 0:56.9 | I was so... |
| 0:58.1 | And I just thought, well... |
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| 1:02.3 | Because science was on my side. |
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| 1:21.9 | This week's stories from Kiara Mariotini. It was recorded in July 2016 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 1:39.6 | I moved to United States in January 2008. |
| 1:45.0 | So it was January, it was freezing cold and I'm Italian. |
| 1:50.0 | I come from Arezzo, is a small city in the heart of Toscany. |
| 1:58.0 | About approximately 150,000 people live there and I moved to New York City, |
| 2:06.3 | the hub of the Western world, 10 millions of souls going around every day. And my family lives |
| 2:15.9 | in the countryside of Arezzo. |
| 2:19.3 | So they have a small, no, actually quite big house on the top of the hill with a garden, |
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