Moran Cerf: Being dead while being alive
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2013
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Moran Cerf's life is spun around when a computer glitch declares him dead -- but that's nothing compared to what happens when a real funeral comes around.
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring |
| 0:26.4 | your true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:29.7 | A quick note to people in New York, our three-year anniversary show is May 14th at the |
| 0:34.2 | Bell House. More details at storycollider.org. |
| 0:38.5 | This week's story is from Moran Surf. The story was recorded in November 2012 at the Jerome |
| 0:45.1 | L. Green Space in New York City as part of a partnership with Studio 360. The theme of the event was |
| 0:51.6 | Memory. The theme of the event was memory. |
| 1:04.9 | Every year in October, the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, |
| 1:07.7 | announces the winners of the Nobel Prize. |
| 1:10.9 | Every day you wake up and there's one more prize announced. |
| 1:15.6 | Physics, economics, literature, peace, chemistry. |
| 1:17.2 | This is widely known. |
| 1:18.4 | Everyone pays attention to that. |
| 1:23.7 | What is less known is that a few weeks before that, they announced the Ig Nobel Award. |
| 1:31.1 | If you've ever heard of that, the Ig Nobel Award is an award given to scientists who've been doing research that was actually peer-reviewed and published in journals that is utterly stupid. |
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