Renee Hlozek: Who Looks Like A Scientist?
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2015
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
An offhand sexist comment enrages Renee Hlozek, and leads her to dig into how her colleagues really view people who aren't the stereotypical scientist. Dr. Renee Hlozek is the Lyman Spitzer Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow in Theoretical Astrophysics in at Princeton University; the Spitzer-Cotsen Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and is currently a Senior TED Fellow. Her research focuses on theoretical cosmology; as a member of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope she measures the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation to decipher the initial conditions of the universe. When not investigating the cosmos, she loves to sing (loudly), read and bake. She makes a mean Negroni.
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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 was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey. Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.6 | We have our five-year anniversary show coming up May 6th in New York City, storycollider.org for more details. |
| 0:36.2 | This week's stories from Renee Lajek. It was recorded in April |
| 0:39.1 | 2015 at Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:49.5 | The first time I looked at my skin under a microscope. I was amazed. |
| 0:55.7 | I had stolen it, or as I like to say, creatively borrowed it from my brother. |
| 1:00.9 | And when I looked at the skin, I saw little cells laid on top of one another. |
| 1:06.2 | And I couldn't believe that something so mundane and boring had become incredible. I felt the same way |
| 1:13.0 | when I first heard and understood why leaves turn red and gold and fall off the trees. |
| 1:19.2 | Growing up in South Africa, in a part of the country that doesn't actually have seasons, |
| 1:23.4 | I was amazed that the beautiful colors that I'd seen actually had scientific reason for existing. |
| 1:29.9 | I, as a kid, I gravitated towards trying to understand the natural world |
| 1:33.5 | in my deep faith that anyone could be a scientist. |
| 1:37.3 | And this is something that was supported by my teachers and my mother. |
| 1:41.0 | In fact, my mom once told me I could be anything I wanted, |
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