Fresh Start: Stories about new beginnings

The Story Collider

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Performing Arts, Arts, Science

4.4 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

As we say goodbye to 2023 and ring in the New Year, this week’s classic episode is all about the novel. Part 1: Feeling isolated in her new job as a particle accelerator operator at Fermilab, Cindy Joe finds comfort in the friendship of her unconventional pet. This story originally aired on July 27, 2018 in an episode titled “Loneliness: Stories about finding friends”. Part 2: Actor Gail Thomas is invited to take part in a study testing mushrooms as treatment for depression in cancer survivors. This story originally aired on Dec. 1, 2017 in an episode titled “Psychotropic Substances: Stories about altered states”. Cindy Joe is an engineering physicist at Fermilab, America’s particle physics and accelerator laboratory. She got her bachelor’s degree in physics and became a licensed senior nuclear reactor operator at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After starting at Fermilab, she worked as a particle accelerator operator for seven years before taking her current role with several experiments studying neutrinos, tiny particles that might hold the answers to some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. Cindy is a frequent and deeply passionate contributor to Fermilab’s educational outreach programs and has spoken to audiences from elementary school students to members of Congress. Gail Thomas has several resumes: writer/actor/teacher/filmmaker/lawyer. She is a Moth StorySLAM winner and has performed with RISK!, Sideshow Goshko, the Liar Show. She teaches for the Story Studio. Voiceover credits include David Letterman, Beavis and Butthead and Angelo Rules. Her short comedy, My BFF, rated 95% funny on Funny or Die and audience favorite at New Filmmakers. As a speechwriter for the Tribeca Film Festival and the Gotham Awards, her words were uttered by Oscar winners and fancy people with great clothes. Gail is currently working on her fashion sense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.2	A science story, huh? Is NYU scientists the... I felt a lot. I felt. I was right... And I just thought, well...
0:39.3	I figured it out.
0:40.3	It was that golden moment.
0:42.3	Because science was on my side.
0:44.3	Hey, everyone, welcome to the story clutter, where true personal stories about science help us to discover how weird and wonderful it is to exist in this world and be a human.
1:03.1	I'm your host, Mishayevsky, and can you believe it's almost 2024? I know. I know. Where does the time go? So, as we get ready to ring in the new year,
1:13.8	we thought we'd listen to some of our favorite stories about new beginnings and fresh darts.
1:18.1	Up first, Cindy Joe. Cindy Joe is an engineering physicist studying neutrinos, the tiny particles
1:23.8	that might hold the answers to some of the universe's biggest mysteries.
1:34.0	Her story first aired on our podcast in 2018 and an episode titled Loneliness, Stories About Finding Friends.
1:35.6	Cindy's story is about that oh-so-relatable and human experience of not fitting in.
1:40.1	I love this story.
1:42.4	Here's Cindy.
1:57.0	Music I love this story. Here's Cindy. When I was just out of college, I had a pet snail.
2:01.6	This was when I was still living in Portland, Oregon. I had bought a box of strawberries from a fruit stand in a hurry,
2:05.6	and I hadn't noticed until I got home that there was a little hitchhiker inside.
2:09.6	So I decided to keep him.
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