Indre Viskontas: The Man Chart
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2015
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Neuroscientist Indre Viskontas and her friends turn to science to find the right way to date. Indre Viskontas is a neuroscientist and opera singer. She is also the host of Inquiring Minds, an in-depth exploration of the place where science, politics, and society collide. http://www.motherjones.com/inquiringminds
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is that all your scientist the... |
| 0:33.2 | I felt... |
| 0:34.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.4 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:50.5 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, |
| 0:53.5 | where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:56.4 | We have shows coming up in New York City, a special event March 3rd with Springer, and March 18th is our annual Brain Awareness Week show. |
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| 1:05.6 | This week's story is from Indre Viscontas. |
| 1:07.4 | It was recorded in October 2014 at the Rikshaw stop in San Francisco. |
| 1:11.6 | So about halfway through graduate school, I was sitting in my office one day and I was |
| 1:21.6 | staring at the wall as I spent a lot of time in grad school doing, not thinking about what I should have been thinking, which was my dissertation. |
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