Erin Barker: Plants And People
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2015
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Erin Barker's attempt to save a college relationship leads her to a plant biology class where the professor brought an ax to class. Erin Barker is senior producer of The Story Collider and a host of its live show in New York. She is the first woman to win The Moth's GrandSLAM storytelling competition twice and has appeared in its Mainstage and shows in cities across the country, as well as on its Peabody Award-winning show on PRX, The Moth Radio Hour. One of her stories was included in The Moth's New York Times-bestselling book, The Moth: 50 True Stories. She considers herself a Gryffindor.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I 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. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | ... Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, where we bring you true personal |
| 0:29.3 | stories about science. We have shows coming up in New York City, special event next week, |
| 0:33.7 | March 3rd with Springer at the Bell House, and March 18th is our annual Brain Awareness |
| 0:38.5 | Week show at Littlefield. Also, March 23rd will be in Atlanta. More info at storycollider.org. |
| 0:45.6 | This week's stories from Aaron Barker. It was recorded in February 2014 at American Junkie |
| 0:50.8 | in Chicago, Illinois. Um, so my whole life I was always an underachiever. |
| 1:04.0 | In high school I had a stunning 2.5 GPA that I was very proud of. I barely got into college. |
| 1:13.6 | And I liked hanging around people who were serious students though. |
| 1:19.6 | It made me feel a little bit smarter. And I would go out with guys. My type was National Merit |
| 1:25.6 | Scholars. That was what got it going for me. |
| 1:30.1 | Guys who got really good SAT scores, that was what I was into. And they were guys who would, |
| 1:36.9 | you know, read serious literature and see important films, which they would drag me to |
| 1:43.5 | for my intellectual betterment. |
| 1:46.0 | I saw a movie called The Pianist, which has a hilarious title, but is not hilarious |
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