Evolution: Stories about our changing relationship with science
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers explore their ever changing relationships with science over the course of their lives.
Part 1: All throughout his life, Chris Wade has a love-hate relationship with science, with very little love.
Part 2: After Caroline Hu’s parents make her choose between art and science at age 17, she struggles with her choice.
Chris Wade is a native Washingtonian and a retired police officer. He is married to his best friend and adores his children. Chris enjoys storytelling, laughter, traveling and good food. He is a Johns Hopkins University graduate and currently works in community outreach. One of his favorite quotes is, "Tell me the facts and I'll learn. Tell me the truth and I'll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in heart forever."
Caroline Hu studied the evolution of animal behavior at Harvard University. She has lived in the Midwest, California, and China, but like the salmon, is now back in the Boston area where she was born. She also draws comics inspired by other living things–from pitcher plants to those toads that carry their eggs in their back. Her dream project is to create a graphic novel inspired by her scientific training. A copy of its first chapter, which she self-published, is in the Library of Congress.
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.3 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:33.1 | I felt... |
| 0:33.8 | I felt... |
| 0:34.1 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.1 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:56.3 | I'm your host. I'm your host, Eric Jankowski. Hey everyone, welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm your host, Eric Jankowski, and this week our theme is Evolution. |
| 1:06.9 | Evolution is a topic near and dear to me because studying it turned me into a programmer. |
| 1:14.6 | When I was a graduate student, I had a chance crossover with John Holland, who had won a MacArthur Fellowship for his invention of genetic algorithms. These algorithms can be used to model evolution, and I fell in love coding them, working with political scientists, physicists, and even lawyers who were using them to study problems in their fields. |
| 1:26.6 | But I had focused on chemical engineering specifically to avoid programming computers. |
| 1:32.0 | And so it was a surprise that evolution helped me find a niche where I could thrive. |
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