Eliza Strickland: Lost in the deep
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2013
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Science writer Eliza Strickland discovers that in the race to the bottom of the Mariana Trench the most important thing is what they leave behind. Eliza Strickland is an editor for the magazine IEEE Spectrum, where she was assigned the daunting beat of covering technology across the Asian continent. On her third day on the job a tsunami flooded the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. She spent the next two years writing about the catastrophe, its human cost, and the future of energy. And this one time, in Seoul, she rode the world's fastest elevator. Every week the Story Collider brings you a true, personal story about science. Find more and subscribe to our podcast at our website: http://storycollider.org/
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:33.2 | I felt... |
| 0:33.9 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:41.3 | Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:58.3 | This week's story is from Eliza Strickland. The story was recorded in July 2013 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 1:05.3 | The theme of the evening was Close to death. |
| 1:30.3 | So there I was in the middle of a typhoon on a little old ferry boat, and I was staring at a sign on the wall that said, no passengers allowed on this boat more than 20 miles offshore. |
| 1:35.2 | Now, we were about 85 miles off the coast of Guam, |
| 1:39.2 | and I was about 7,900 miles away from my cubicle |
| 1:43.7 | in New York City, which is where I would normally have |
| 1:46.2 | been spending the day. I work as a science writer for the technology magazine I-Triple-E Spectrum, |
| 1:52.9 | and in the spring of 2011, I got interested in the race to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, |
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