Elna Baker: Nerd day
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2013
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Elna Baker's grade school reputation faces it's greatest threat: her engineer father's enthusiasm for homework. Every week the Story Collider brings you a true, personal story about science. Find more here: http://storycollider.org/ Elna Baker is a writer and comedic storyteller. She's appeared on The Moth Radio Hour, This American Life, BBC Radio 4, All Things Considered, WTF with Marc Maron, Studio 360, The Sound of Young America, The Joy Behar Show and at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. She's written for ELLE, Glamour, Men's Journal, O Magazine, More Magazine, Five Dials Literary Journal and xoJane.com. Her memoir The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance was published by Penguin, earning four stars in People Magazine and the 2010 AML award for best humor writing. She's also the co-host and co-creator of The Talent Show, recently named best variety show by New York Magazine. Her upcoming novel You Are My Revenge, co-written with Kevin Townley, will be published by Scholastic in 2014.
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is that all your scientist the... |
| 0:33.2 | I felt... |
| 0:34.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:41.4 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:59.6 | This week's story is from Elna Baker. The story was recorded in June 2013 at Dramm in New York City. |
| 1:07.1 | The theme of the night was lost. |
| 1:21.5 | So I have never had a repressed memory, or not that I've known him, or I never thought that I did. |
| 1:25.5 | But this is the story of the only memory that I've ever lost. |
| 1:31.8 | And weirdly, the only reason it came up was I was visiting my parents and my sister flew out to because our great-grandfather had died |
| 1:35.2 | and we're all in Arizona. |
| 1:37.2 | And we're leaving this funeral and we're driving on the highway. |
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