Stress: Stories about being under pressure
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re presenting two stories about stressful situations in science.
Part 1: Due to stress in her personal life, TV writer Joey Slamon develops a cyst in an unfortunate place.
Part 2: As a biochemistry PhD student, Kellie Vinal has worked hard to prepare for her qualifying exam, but when the day finally arrives, nothing goes according to plan.
Joey Slamon has worked as a writer and producer on shows such as Arrested Development, Those Who Can’t and Bobcat Goldthwait’s upcoming Misfits and Monsters. She is currently working on season two of I’m Sorry for TruTV. Despite no formal training, she will happily give you medical advice if you ask for it.
Kellie Vinal is a PhD biochemist, science writer, educator, producer, and adventure enthusiast based in Atlanta, Georgia. She’s wildly interested in the intersection of science, art, and humanity and generally can’t sit still. She’s currently a freelance science communicator, serving as Festival Coordinator for the Atlanta Science Festival, Producer for The Story Collider, and Scientist In Residence for STE(A)M Truck. Kellie has also organized conferences, hosted a children’s TV show, written for various outlets, produced a science-themed bicycle scavenger hunt, hosted podcasts, collaborated on science-infused art projects, and trained to lead museum tours – all in the name of inspiring curiosity and wonder about science.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.8 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.6 | I felt... |
| 0:07.4 | I was so... |
| 0:08.7 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:09.6 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.8 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:26.8 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Story Collider, where we present true personal stories about science. |
| 0:31.5 | I am your host, Aaron Barker, and this week we're presenting stories about stress. |
| 0:37.9 | Kind of like the feeling we all felt this week when we opened up our work email for the first time after holiday break. |
| 0:45.1 | You know it. You love it. Our first story today is from Joey Sleman. It was recorded in August 2018 at the Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles. The theme that night was battles. |
| 0:59.5 | So I am the daughter of a Syrian doctor. |
| 1:00.2 | That's not a brag. |
| 1:01.4 | The doctor part. |
| 1:03.6 | Syrian's not a brag anywhere these days. |
| 1:05.1 | But the doctor part's also not a brag. |
| 1:05.9 | It's just a fact. |
| 1:07.0 | And my dad's a doctor. |
| 1:09.4 | I inherited a lot of things for my father. |
| 1:11.6 | Most of them come from the Syrian side instead of the doctor's side, unfortunately. I have a very strong opinion about things that I will change |
| 1:17.3 | on a dime based on nothing at all, much like my father, which really worked out from my dad. |
| 1:23.0 | My dad is an oncologist, as I said, and he believed that, you know, chemotherapy is the way to treat |
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