Skylar Bayer: The Hummingbird of Doom
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2016
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Skylar Bayer's dreams of a career in scientific scuba diving are put in jeopardy when her heart begins acting strangely. Skylar Bayer is a PhD candidate studying the secret sex lives of scallops in the great state of Maine. Due to a mishap involving a fisherman, buckets of gonads, and an unlocked Chevy, she once lost all her research samples, but gained a segment on The Colbert Report. She has also appeared as a guest on MPBN's Maine Calling and manages the blog and podcast, Strictlyfishwrap. Skylar has produced and hosted shows for The Story Collider throughout Maine.
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:33.0 | I felt... |
| 0:34.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.1 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:51.4 | Everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:57.4 | This week's stories from Skyler Bear. |
| 0:59.1 | It was recorded in June 2016 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 1:22.7 | Thank you. So I'm in my buddy Jeff's basement, and it's covered with body glow paint and black lights and glitter. |
| 1:27.5 | And it's Halloween. There's even a disco ball like in this room. And there's also a dance cage made of PVC pipe and rope, |
| 1:30.8 | because that's what oceanographic engineers do for fun. |
| 1:35.0 | And I'm visiting my friends, my grad student friends at MIT, |
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