Kishore Hari: We will rock the Earth
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2014
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
When Kishore Hari is hired to run a new science festival he thinks he has the perfect plan, but the reality was much more than he expected. Kishore Hari is the Director of the Bay Area Science Festival, an annual celebration of science in San Francisco. After spending years operating an environmental services company, he left industry for the greener pastures of public science events and science education. He has founded numerous public science ventures, including a science cafe, a science field trip series, and a comprehensive calendar of science events across the Bay Area. Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: http://www.patreon.com/thestorycollider
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt a huge, but I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | ...theid... 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. |
| 0:33.5 | This week's story is from Kishore Hari. |
| 0:35.9 | The story was recorded in September 2013 at the Middle East downstairs in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:41.9 | The theme of the evening was Poisons and Passions. |
| 0:51.0 | Oh, I am so goddamn excited to be here. |
| 0:55.5 | And it's because I used to be a scientist. |
| 0:59.5 | I own my own scientific company for a while. |
| 1:03.0 | But I found it soulless, and soul crushing is the word I used to my wife |
| 1:07.8 | when I was trying to justify quitting a job and going into science education, which is not the best move |
| 1:13.0 | when you're having a kid and you're like, can I quit my health insurance? |
| 1:19.3 | But thinking about my best memories in science, |
| 1:25.7 | it involves just shooting the shit with my friends over beers where we talk |
| 1:32.5 | about science. And somehow that translated in my mind, like, you should go into science education. |
| 1:37.7 | That's what science education is. We get 300 people in a bar and we drink, we drink beer, talk about science and look at this this is what is happening right now |
| 1:48.5 | That is a real thing |
| 1:51.5 | My dad would be so disappointed |
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