Jim O'Grady: You, me, and the monkey
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2013
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Jim O'Grady's attempts to woo his housemate are stymied by the monkey she's training to help quadriplegics. Jim O'Grady is a reporter for WNYC Radio and a Moth GrandSLAM champ. He has worked as a reporter for The New York Times, a professor of journalism at NYU and research director at The Center for an Urban Future. That's a policy think tank for whom he co-wrote this science-y report: http://bit.ly/7vx5Ei. He is the author of two biographies, Dorothy Day: With Love for the Poor and Disarmed & Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan. Ask him how his high school science teacher, who was a nut job, pronounced "mitochondria." Every week the Story Collider brings you a true, personal story about science. Find more and subscribe to our podcast at our website: storycollider.org/
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:33.2 | I felt... |
| 0:34.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.1 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.4 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Ben Lilly. |
| 0:46.9 | And welcome to the Story Collider, |
| 0:48.5 | where we bring you two stories |
| 0:49.6 | of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:52.3 | This week's story is from Jim O'Grady. |
| 0:54.9 | The story was recorded in November 2013 at the Under St. Mark's Theater as part of the |
| 0:59.9 | Gotham Storytelling Festival. |
| 1:01.9 | The theme of the evening was Storms. |
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