John Rennie: The Downside Of Being The Boss
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2015
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
John Rennie finds it’s great to be editor in chief of Scientific American, but not when all the ingredients of sarin gas are in his office. John Rennie is a science writer, editor, and lecturer based in New York. Viewers of The Weather Channel know him as the host of the original series Hacking The Planet and co-host of the hit special The Truth About Twisters. He is also the editorial director of science for McGraw-Hill Education, overseeing its highly respected AccessScience online reference and the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Rennie served as editor in chief of Scientific American (including the monthly magazine, Scientific American Mind, ScientificAmerican.com and other publications) between 1994 and 2009.
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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... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:50.8 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:57.3 | We're coming to San Francisco for the Bay Area Science Festival, October 26th, Storycollider.org for more info. |
| 1:05.1 | This week's stories from John Rennie. It was recorded in May 2015 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. |
| 1:20.2 | Thank you. It was recorded in May 2015 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. Listen, don't we all really love stories about rag-tag bands of smart, nerdy misfits who fight the good fight against oppressive killjoys. |
| 1:34.3 | Of course we do. Think of movies like Revenge of the Nerds, Nerds versus the Jocks, or Ghostbusters. |
| 1:41.3 | When it's the Ghostbusters versus that petty EPA bureaucrat or the TV show |
| 1:47.5 | MASH where you had the fun surgeons against chinless Major Frank Burns. |
| 1:53.5 | And I am happy to say that at one point in my life, back when I was an editor at Scientific American, |
| 2:02.6 | I actually had the pleasure of getting to live out exactly this kind of conflict. |
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