Madeline Huberth: The turtle and the fish
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2012
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Madeline Huberth confronts the imminent death of a classroom goldfish while navigating the dangerous social waters of junior high. "Why could someone, if they could control a situation and make a happy ending, choose not to do so?"
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it. |
| 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. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, |
| 0:27.2 | where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:30.9 | This week's story is from Madeline Hubert. |
| 0:33.6 | The story was recorded in June 2012 at Live in Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
| 0:44.0 | So in the sixth grade, I was lucky to have really good teachers. |
| 0:48.7 | I was the kind of student who cared a lot about school. |
| 0:51.2 | I wanted teachers who challenged me, but were also just great people. |
| 0:55.0 | And one of those teachers was my science teacher and my primary teacher, Mr. Hasler. |
| 1:00.0 | He was on the younger side with red hair and a way of getting along with the students |
| 1:06.0 | that just surpassed every other teacher in the building. |
| 1:10.0 | He was a kind of student, or a kind of teacher where the other students |
| 1:13.3 | would ask you who your science teacher was |
| 1:15.0 | and you said Mr. Hasler and they were like, |
| 1:16.6 | man, that'd be so cool and you're so lucky. |
| 1:18.7 | And I was, and it was, it was really cool. |
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