Get To Know Merritt Moore

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Rebel Girls

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids

4.5 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Get to know physicist and ballet dancer Dr. Merritt Moore, who brought us the story of roboticist Yoky Matsuoka. Merritt tells us about creating her dual path in arts and science, and what drew her into these different fields. She also tells us why Yoky’s story resonated so strongly with her, as she hid parts of herself from the world. And she shares her ultimate goal of going to the moon! [This episode originally aired April 2021.]

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0:00.0	This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:09.0	Hi rebels, this is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls rebel girls the interview I'm your host
0:15.1	Alaya and today we're talking to Merritt Moore she's a dancer and the scientist she also
0:21.9	read us the story of robotics pioneer Yoki
0:24.8	Matuoka. If you haven't heard that episode, you definitely should. Okay, Merritt, can you introduce yourself to our listeners?
0:39.0	My name is Dr. Merritt Moore, and I am a quantum physicist and a professional ballet dancer.
0:47.4	I pursued physics and ballet for a long time separately but now I love merging the two fields, so I now dance with robots.
0:57.0	Wow, what a cool combination!
1:00.0	So, how did you get into both dancing and science?
1:05.0	So as a kid I always loved puzzles and math.
1:10.0	Like I just love solving puzzles and building these 3D puzzles in particular.
1:14.0	I actually didn't fall into dance until I was 13 and that was late in the dance world.
1:21.0	When I started I was told that I would never make it
1:24.2	as a professional valley dancer,
1:26.0	but I loved it so much.
1:27.5	I think I gravitated towards it
1:29.1	because it was also a non-verbal activity.
1:31.4	I gravitated toward things that were nonverbal. So gravitated towards
1:34.6	dance, gravitated towards math, and then found physics a bit later when I was around 17.
1:40.3	I was like, wow, there are so many mysteries in this universe and I want to
1:44.7	discover all of them or I want to be part of the teams that are like trying to
1:50.0	explore these mysteries in the universe. That makes it sound super exciting.
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