Spiraling: Stories of losing control
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week we present two stories of people who spiraled out of control in their minds.
Part 1: Computer vision researcher Virginie Uhlmann struggles to send an important email.
Part 2: After a panic attack, Shane Saunderson questions the role of technology in his life.
Virginie Uhlmann is fascinated by life sciences but feels more comfortable surrounded by equations and code than by pipettes. With her research group at the EMBL-EBI, she thus develops mathematical tools and algorithms to analyse biological images. Besides science, her true loves are mountains and birds.
Shane Saunderson received a B.Eng. in mechanical engineering from McGill University in 2005 and a M.B.A. in technology and innovation from Ryerson University in 2011. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate studying social Human-Robot Interaction under Prof. Goldie Nejat within the Autonomous Systems and Biomechatronics Laboratory (ASBLab) in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. Shane holds a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and is a Junior Fellow with Massey College. His research focuses on psychological influence caused by robots during social interactions with particular interest in topics such as persuasion, trust, and leadership.
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| 0:35.1 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:36.9 | It felt... I felt. |
| 0:37.8 | I felt right. |
| 0:38.4 | And I just thought, well. |
| 0:39.9 | I figured it out. |
| 0:40.7 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:43.2 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:50.3 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm your host, Aaron Barker, and this week we're presenting stories about spiraling, or getting carried away with anxiety. |
| 1:08.7 | A feeling that I imagine is not at all familiar to you our listeners in this current |
| 1:13.1 | period of time. |
| 1:14.7 | Our first story is from Virginie Ollman. |
| 1:17.2 | It was recorded in December 2019 at Cambridge Junction and Cambridge, UK. |
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