Erika Engelhaupt: The Science Of Speeding
The Story Collider
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🗓️ 22 August 2014
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Erika Engelhaupt is on a road trip out to DC when suddenly they're pulled over and her boyfriend is arrested. She'll need science to vindicate her man. Erika Engelhaupt is a science writer and editor. At the time of this show, she is about to start a new job as the online science editor at National Geographic. She was most recently a deputy managing editor at Science News magazine, where she started her blog, Gory Details. Gory Details covers all that is creepy, bizarre, or otherwise strangely fascinating in science, from psychopaths to what happens when you pee in the pool. Basically, she likes to give people the creeps, but in a good way. Erika's work has appeared in Science News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, on National Public Radio and in many other newspapers and magazines. Before becoming a writer, she had lots of adventures in biogeochemistry, many of which involved wearing hip waders in Louisiana swamps.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt... |
| 0:08.0 | ...and I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment... |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:19.0 | ...hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true |
| 0:27.3 | personal stories about science. |
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| 0:42.8 | offer code Collider 814. This week's story is from Erica Englehout. The story was recorded in |
| 0:49.8 | August 2014 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. |
| 0:57.8 | Thank you. August 2014 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. So the trouble started right away. |
| 1:01.7 | I was moving from Boulder, Colorado to Washington, D.C., |
| 1:06.4 | and my boyfriend Jay and I were going to drive and make a little road trip of it. |
| 1:12.6 | But as soon as the movers left with all my stuff, I realized I couldn't find my wallet anywhere. |
| 1:18.6 | I had no driver's license, so we had to go to the DMV and get a temporary driver's license |
| 1:24.6 | and go get a temporary ATM card. |
| 1:26.6 | So it's late afternoon by the time we even |
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