My Parent's Child: Stories about taking care of those who took care of us
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week we share two stories from scientists who had to take on a new role with their parents.
Part 1: As the scientist in the family, Steve Scott takes on a new role when his dad must undergo heart surgery.
Part 2: Tajana Schneiderman struggles to live up to the expectations and sacrifices of her brilliant scientist mother.
Steve is a science communicator and public engagement professional working at the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK. He has a passion for helping scientists to find ways of sharing their stories, and a particular interest in engaging people with genetics and genomics. Steve also loves musical theatre, exploring nature, music that gets you dancing, and seeing the best in people!
Tajana Schneiderman is a PhD student in planetary sciences at MIT. Although she thought astronomy would be a career that let her look up, she finds she spends a lot of time reading papers, writing code, and analyzing data. She’s interested in detecting and characterizing exoplanetary systems to better understand the way systems form and evolve. In her free time, she knits, reads, and goes on backpacking adventures.
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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 felt right. |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well, I figured it out. |
| 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. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm your host, Erin Barker, and this week we're presenting stories about being your parent's child. |
| 0:34.6 | You know how, as you get older, you start to realize that despite your best intentions, |
| 0:39.6 | you're turning out exactly like your parent. I used to think, oh man, my mom checks out all the time. |
| 0:46.0 | She's never present in the moment. And then the other day, I was walking down the street, |
| 0:51.1 | had in the clouds, probably thinking about a story, and then I ran |
| 0:54.3 | directly into a crotch height pole at full speed. It felt pretty much like you might expect it to feel. |
| 1:03.2 | Obviously, the first thing I did was look around and see if anyone had seen this happen. |
| 1:07.9 | I was almost kind of disappointed that no one had. Like, it almost would have made me feel |
| 1:12.5 | better if at least somebody got a laugh out of it. But you know what? First of all, why are there |
| 1:18.3 | crotch height poles? What purpose does a crotch height pole serve? If you're making a pole, |
| 1:23.9 | just make it go all the way up so we can all see it in our peripheral vision. |
| 1:34.0 | And then of course, next I realized, oh my God, this is just like my mom. To be so distracted and not present in the moment, I am becoming my mother. So basically what I'm trying to say is |
| 1:40.3 | I was hidden in the crotch both literally and metaphorically. Let's hope this journey ends better for our two storytellers today. |
| 1:48.3 | Our first story is from Steve Scott. |
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