Kelly & Zach Weinersmith: Two nerds fall in love

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4.4 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2013

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Biologist Kelly Smith and comic artist Zach Weiner were having trouble dating, until they met online and realized what they each needed was another nerd.

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0:00.0	A science story, huh?
0:04.0	Is NYU a scientist?
0:06.0	I felt.
0:07.0	I was so...
0:08.0	And I just thought, well...
0:10.0	It was that golden moment.
0:13.0	Because science was on my side.
0:19.0	Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives.
0:29.6	This week's story is from two people, at the same time.
0:33.6	At our last event, we tried having a couple pairs telling their stories together, and it went quite well.
0:39.0	So here are Kelly and Zach Wienersmith.
0:41.8	The story was recorded in February 2013 at Dram in Manhattan.
0:46.8	The theme of the event was Love and Science.
0:49.5	Hi.
0:57.0	I was good, right?
1:00.0	So Kelly and I actually met on OkCupid, which is a really good site for geeky people because you can check each other's educational attainment
1:12.1	before sending a message.
1:15.9	But they used to have this really cool blog
1:18.7	where they would crunch numbers on weird information
1:21.3	about people who use OKCupid.
1:23.9	Like you could, apparently like if someone uses the word grammar,
1:27.3	it means they're
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