David Epstein: A turn on the track
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2013
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
When tragedy strikes his high school friend, David Epstein vows to find out what happened. David Epstein is author of the recent New York Times bestseller The Sports Gene, an exploration of the genetic basis of athleticism. He is currently an investigative reporter at the non-profit ProPublica. Up until September, he was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. He has been a crime reporter at the New York Daily News, and an education reporter at Inside Higher Ed. In his past life, David was a geology grad student. He has lived in the Sonoran Desert, on a ship in the Pacific Ocean, in the Arctic in Alaska, and -- like every other writer -- in Brooklyn. Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: www.patreon.com/thestorycollider
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| 0:31.8 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:34.9 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:36.7 | It felt... I was really... And I just thought, felt... I was so... |
| 0:38.3 | And I just thought, well... |
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| 0:42.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:45.3 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:58.1 | Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 1:03.1 | This week's story is from David Epstein. |
| 1:05.5 | The story was recorded in December 2013 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. |
| 1:10.1 | The theme of the evening was the dark side. |
| 1:19.3 | So, Coach Phillips was a crazy guy. He used to come along with us on runs, and if a car |
| 1:25.3 | turned too close in front of us, he'd punch the door as hard |
| 1:28.1 | as he could. If the driver stopped to yell at him, he'd run right up to the driver's side window |
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