Stories of COVID-19: Community, Part 1
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Right now, while we can’t safely gather together, it can be difficult to feel part of a community. When most of our interactions are through a computer screen, it’s tough to support and inspire each other, celebrate special occasions, and discover new experiences together. But our stories in this episode will explore the ways in which our storytellers managed to do just that.
Our first story is from Emily Levesque, an award-winning astrophysicist and a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. As telescopes around the world shut down due to the pandemic, Emily longs for the shared experience of gazing up at the sky with others. (Find images and transcripts of all of our stories on our website.)
After Emily’s story, our host speaks with clinical psychologist and affective neuroscientist Aaron Heller about how new and diverse experiences (or a lack there of!) affect our mental health.
Stay tuned for THREE more stories about Community in Part 2 on Monday!
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| 0:43.3 | Hello and welcome back to Story Collider's Stories of COVID-19 series. I'm your host, Aaron Barker, and this is part one of episodes on the theme of community. |
| 0:49.3 | Right now, while we can't safely gather together, community is harder than ever to create, |
| 0:55.0 | at least in the ways that we're used to. |
| 0:57.0 | But at the same time, it's also essential to our survival. |
| 1:01.0 | We need to take care of each other, now more than ever. |
| 1:04.0 | And we also need to feel connected, and like we belong and like we're part of something bigger. |
| 1:09.0 | When most of our interactions are through a computer screen, it's tough to support each other, |
| 1:14.5 | celebrate special occasions, discover new experiences together, and inspire each other. |
| 1:20.1 | But our stories in this episode will explore the ways in which our storytellers manage to |
| 1:24.9 | do just that. |
| 1:26.7 | And then we'll talk to Aaron Heller, a scientist who has studied the impact of new or novel |
| 1:32.2 | experiences on our mental health. |
| 1:34.8 | Our first story is from astrophysicist Emily Levesque. |
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