Diane Kelly: Confronting death on the road
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2012
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
After turning to a unique field of study -- erections -- Diane Kelly turns to an even more unique source for her research material -- roadkill. "When you open up an animal, there is all kinds of awesome in there."
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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. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the 100th episode of The Story Collider. |
| 0:28.7 | Yay! |
| 0:29.9 | To celebrate, we're running a story from someone we've been meaning to have on the show for quite a while. |
| 0:34.4 | She's famous for some research that, well, she'll tell you about it. |
| 0:39.2 | Warning to parents, it gets a touch graphic. Not much. But as they would say on this American |
| 0:43.9 | life, it acknowledges the existence of sex organs. The storyteller is Diane Kelly. The story |
| 0:50.5 | was recorded in September 2012 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 0:55.1 | The theme of the event was Animals. |
| 1:02.2 | So I have been desperately in love with animals my entire life. |
| 1:08.6 | And I know this is true because I'm the oldest kid in my family and like lots and lots of |
| 1:14.7 | first time mothers, mine was completely obsessive about chronicling every single thing that I did. |
| 1:23.7 | So I can open up my baby book, which is, you know, yay thick, and on the page that is entitled |
| 1:31.0 | Favorite Things to Do, at the very top is Plays with Animals. |
| 1:34.9 | And then there's this other page, which is entitled Accidents. |
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