Leaving Home: Stories about the places we're from
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're presenting stories about leaving home in pursuit of science.
Part 1: After being raised as a creationist, Jennifer Colbourne falls in love with evolutionary science.
Jennifer Colbourne is a graduate student at York University where she is currently researching raccoon intelligence. She is interested in how animals are adapting to cities, and how to improve animal-human interactions in the urban environment.
Part 2: Herman B. White leaves his hometown of Tuskegee behind to pursue physics -- but his Alabama roots help him make a surprising connection later in his career.
Herman B. White, Jr. is a Senior Scientist having served Fermilab for over 43 years in leadership roles and research on nearly a dozen experiments covering, Neutrino, Muon, and Kaon physics and projects in accelerators and particle beams. For decades, he has worked to communicate important decisions about physical science research to the U. S. Congress, agencies in Washington and the world, including service on advisory panels for the Energy Department (HEPAP), National Science Foundation, NASA, the National Academies, the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications, and APS. He was a Resident Research Associate in Nuclear Physics at Argonne National Laboratory for a period in 1971, a Sloan travel fellow at CERN during part of 1972, a University Fellow at Yale from 1976-78, and received his Ph.D. from Florida State University. Among his recognitions, for his contributions to Kaon Physics and the establishment of a new kind of interaction distinguishing matter from antimatter, he received the (APS), American Physical Society, Edward A. Bouchet Award in 2010. His life story recorded in 2006 by the HistoryMakers organization in Chicago, was made a part of the HistoryMakers Video Oral History Archives currently included in the USA Library of Congress permanent repository.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | 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. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm your host, Erin Barker, and this week we're presenting stories about leaving home |
| 0:33.6 | and the beliefs in the culture that we grew up with, which we may or may not carry with us |
| 0:39.2 | when we leave. Our first story is from Jennifer Colburn. It was recorded in April 2018 at the |
| 0:45.6 | Burdock Music Hall in Toronto. The theme that night was defining moments. |
| 1:01.5 | More than anything, when I was a kid, I wanted a testimony. |
| 1:07.3 | For those of you who aren't familiar with Christian evangelicalism, a testimony is when you get up in front of your church and tell everyone about how you found Jesus. |
| 1:11.8 | The best testimonies are full of trials and tribulations, and how finding Jesus transformed your |
| 1:18.1 | life from darkness to light. I never had the chance to have a testimony. I was a born |
| 1:25.0 | Christian. Sure, when I was six, I repeated the sinner's prayer after |
| 1:29.3 | my parents and invited Jesus into my heart. But even then, I thought that was a strange formality, |
| 1:35.6 | because I felt like Jesus always had been in my heart. It was the same when I got older, |
| 1:41.2 | and it was time to get baptized. I didn't feel like I was making a decision. I felt |
| 1:46.6 | like that decision had been made for me. The thing is, when you're a kid, whatever your parents tell |
| 1:52.8 | you is real, becomes part of your reality. I was told that the world was round. So I believe the |
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