Maryam Zaringhalam: Cheating My Way To Smart
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2016
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Maryam Zaringhalam's scheme to cheat her way into the smart class makes clear a huge flaw in the education system. Maryam Zaringhalam is a molecular biologist and graduate student at The Rockefeller University. In the lab, Maryam tinkers with parasites and computers to understand how small changes to our genetic building blocks can affect how we look and function. When she's not doing science, Maryam runs ArtLab, a series that pairs scientists with artists, and podcasts with Science Soapbox, exploring science and policy.
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| 0:48.9 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:52.1 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 0:53.6 | I felt... I felt... |
| 0:55.0 | And I just thought, well... |
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| 1:00.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 1:02.0 | Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly. |
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| 1:30.3 | This week's story is from Merriam Zeringalam, |
| 1:32.5 | who was recorded in February 2016 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 1:52.0 | My name is a meeting hall in Brooklyn. My eight-year-old self was a garbage student. My mom remembers coming in during parent observation day and watching me from the back of the class, picking my nose and daydreaming. |
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