Rachel Fairbank: Scientist Or Subject?
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2016
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
While being treated after an accident, Rachel Fairbank struggles with not being the researcher. Rachel Fairbank received her bachelor's in biology from Cornell University, did some graduate work in the developmental biology program at Baylor College of Medicine, and is currently working on an MFA in creative writing at the University of Houston, where she also works as a science writer. In her spare time, she likes to box.
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| 0:04.9 | produced by our own Rose Evalyth. Flash Forward is a show about possible tomorrows. Every week, |
| 0:09.8 | Rose takes you on a trip to a possible or not so possible future. Every episode starts with a little |
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| 0:23.5 | to what would happen if space pirates dragged a second moon to Earth. |
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| 0:45.1 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:48.3 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:50.1 | I felt... |
| 0:50.8 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:53.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:56.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 1:02.7 | Hey, everyone. |
| 1:07.8 | I'm Ben Lilly. |
| 1:08.6 | And welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 1:13.6 | This week's stories from Rachel Fairbank. It was recorded in October 2015 at Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts as part of the Science Writers' 2015 meeting. In my second year of a PhD program in developmental biology, I was hit by a car walking to school. |
| 1:43.1 | It was 7.30 in the morning. I was crossing an intersection with a group of |
| 1:47.6 | other pedestrians when halfway across the street. We paused for a moment on the median. I looked to my left. |
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