Margot Leitman: The last thing I heard
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2012
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Margot Leitman faces down doctors, friends and uncertainty when she suddenly loses hearing in one ear. "If I’ve gone deaf, for real, that means the last thing I’ve heard to its full extent was James Cameron’s Avatar, and [that is so] disappointing for me."
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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. |
| 0:12.0 | 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 your true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:36.6 | We're on a break for the month of August, so we're rerunning some of the wonderful |
| 0:39.7 | stories from early on when most of you weren't subscribers. |
| 0:42.8 | Hope you enjoy them. |
| 0:44.4 | This week's story is from Margot Leitman. |
| 0:47.1 | The story was recorded in February 2011 at Pacific Standard in Brooklyn. |
| 0:52.0 | The theme of that night was cognitive dissonance. |
| 1:00.7 | It was Boxing Day 2009, and I was doing what, it seemed, the entire universe was doing that day, |
| 1:07.6 | which was going to see Avatar. |
| 1:10.0 | And I went, and I thought it was fine, blue, |
| 1:13.2 | 3D. I was remarkably unmoved by the whole thing. And I came back to my parents' house in New |
| 1:20.0 | Jersey with my husband after where we were staying for the holidays. And they were asking, |
| 1:24.5 | how was the movie? And I was giving that same review. It was fine. |
| 1:27.9 | Blue people. |
| 1:28.7 | I was unmoved. |
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