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The Story Collider

Heredity: Stories about where we come from

The Story Collider

Story Collider, Inc.

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

4.4824 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week, we present two stories about people understanding their links to their past.

Part 1: A question that Laura Spink asked her parents as a kid comes up again when her own child begins to ask similar questions.

Part 2: After Denise Coberley brings up her doubt in the Bible to her adoptive religious parents, she finds herself on a journey of self-discovery.

Laura Spinkis a  vocalist/percussionist in the Toronto-based duo, The Young Novelists.  She has toured Canada, the United States, and Europe, and the band has  won a Canadian Folk Music Award for New/Emerging Artist of the Year.  Besides working full-time in music, Laura graduated with a Geochemistry  degree from the University of Waterloo and works part-time at the  Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks. She is also  the proud mom of an amazing 7-year old son. 

Denise Coberley has been a science educator for  twenty-three years. She is now pursuing a Master’s in Science  Communication with a minor in Linguistics and Neuroscience. Her  acceptance to the graduate program at Greenlee School of Journalism at  Iowa State University allowed her to reconnect with her academic roots.  Coberley’s goal is to understand how people react and develop science  identities and opinions based on their interactions with media,  including social, print, and news. Her husband, who works at ISU, and  her children, who attend ISU, are her biggest cheerleaders.  

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A science story, huh?

0:31.4

Is that all your scientist?

0:33.0

I felt.

0:34.1

And I just thought, well, it was it out. It was that golden moment.

0:39.4

Because science was on my side.

0:46.5

Hey, everybody.

0:49.9

Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science.

0:54.6

I am your host, Aaron Barker, and this week we're presenting stories about the traits we inherit

0:59.1

and the connections that those traits forge in our lives.

1:02.6

If you heard the first story that I ever told at Story Collider way back in 2011, you know that

1:09.1

I share a very special connection with my mother and grandmother,

1:12.8

which is an autoimmune disorder. Three generations of women, all urinating blood. It's a beautiful

1:20.3

thing. Fortunately for all of you, our storytellers today are a little bit less gross.

1:27.1

Our first story is from Laura Spink.

1:29.4

It was recorded in October 2018 at the Burdock Music Hall in Toronto.

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