Exposure: Stories about new experiences
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Part 1: Journalist Erika Check Hayden travels to Sierra Leone and sees ebola up close and personal for the first time. Part 2: As a child, psychologist Ali Mattu suffers from paralyzing social anxiety. Erika Check Hayden is an award-winning San Francisco-based science, health, and technology reporter. She writes for the science journal Nature, and on a freelance basis for a variety of publications. She is the incoming director of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Science Communication Program. Find her at erikacheck.com or on Twitter @Erika_Check. Ali Mattu is a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety and body-focused repetitive behaviors (trichotillomania/hair-pulling disorder and excoriation/skin-picking disorder). He aspires to bring psychology to everyone, everywhere by hosting THE PSYCH SHOW, writing about the psychology of science fiction at Brain Knows Better, presenting to the public, and advocating for the brain and behavior sciences through the American Psychological Association. Dr. Mattu is an assistant professor at the Columbia University Medical Center.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it. |
| 0:07.0 | I felt right. |
| 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. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Glider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:29.9 | For the first time this week, we'll be bringing you two stories in one podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | Our first story this week is from Erica Check-Haden. |
| 0:36.2 | It was recorded on October 2016 at the Rikshaw Stop in San Francisco as part of the Bay Area Science Festival. |
| 0:50.3 | Seeing the babies was the hardest part. |
| 0:54.8 | It was December 2014, and I was reporting on Ebola in Sierra Leone. |
| 1:01.7 | I'd arrived at a clinic in the city of Bo in the middle of the country. |
| 1:08.1 | There were so many sick babies coming into this clinic that the doctors there were so many sick babies coming into this clinic that the doctors there had created a dedicated |
| 1:17.2 | ward just for infants who had Ebola that's how bad it was they had their own special tent |
| 1:26.7 | just before i'd arrived that day, a mother and a baby with Ebola had checked in together. |
| 1:35.3 | But there was no sound coming from that tent. |
| 1:41.3 | The whole time I was there, the baby tent was completely silent. I knew from my own small |
| 1:50.7 | kids that a healthy child would never lie still and quiet for hours. The next day, I learned that the baby had died. |
| 2:04.9 | His mother had lived, but the doctors were worried that when she found out about her son, |
| 2:12.1 | she would give up on her own fragile recovery. |
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