Something's Not Right: Stories about needing to figure things out
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week we present two stories from people who needed to decipher themselves.
Part 1: After some unfortunate night-time incidents, Keith Mellnick realizes he needs to better understand his sleepwalking before it starts causing even more problems.
Part 2: Avneet Johal is excited to start his first year at university, but strange thoughts and behaviors keep getting in the way.
Keith Mellnick is a freelance photographer whose past work in the Middle East, Central Asia, and East Africa has been highlighted by National Geographic Books, the Atlantic, and his brother's refrigerator. Based in Washington, DC, he currently works primarily with organized labor and progressive causes throughout the US. In addition to photography and storytelling, he enjoys any opportunity to escape into the woods--far from politics, Photoshop, and oppressive DC heat indexes.
Avneet Johal is an award-winning storyteller based in Vancouver, BC with expertise in communication and leadership. He previously managed housing programs for the Canadian Mental Health Association and has worked on a series of successful political campaigns. A Canadian representative at the United Nations, he follows global affairs and also enjoys sports, languages, and (good) rap music. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Los Altos Institute and is honoured to work with a team of talented undergraduate students at the University of British Columbia – a team which he thanks for encouraging him to share his stories with a wider audience.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it was right. |
| 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. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello. Hello, everybody. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome to the Story Collider, where we present true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.6 | I am your host, Liz Neely, and Fear Not. |
| 0:33.6 | Erin Barker is just busy getting us ready for our upcoming 10th anniversary show, |
| 0:38.8 | and she will be back soon. It feels right, I think, then that this week, we're presenting |
| 0:44.7 | stories about things being a little off, like a little wrong. Welcome to our episode, |
| 0:51.3 | something's not right. Now, I don't know about you. I have had plenty of times |
| 0:56.3 | in my life when I knew I was forgetting something, even if I didn't know what it was, or I knew |
| 1:01.5 | something was off, even if I couldn't say why. But I wouldn't really call those feelings, |
| 1:07.7 | like, scientific. I always thought they were like the most superstitious part of me. |
| 1:12.0 | But I really love this. I found a paper, surprise, surprise, but a paper in the Journal of General |
| 1:18.9 | Internal Medicine. It's dedicated to gut feelings that doctors have when they're examining a |
| 1:24.9 | patient and like trying to make a diagnosis. I love this analysis |
| 1:28.6 | because they suggest that those intuitions can actually play a powerful and important role in |
| 1:34.6 | good decision making. So they're suggesting that a nagging feeling of alarm or worry should be |
| 1:40.7 | a cue to the doctors to slow down in their diagnosis, to reconsider all the available |
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