Stuart Firestein: A mentor with a nose for science

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4.4 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2013

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

After a career as a theater manager, Stuart Firestein takes a biology class, which leads him to a completely new life, and a lot of salamander noses.

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0:28.2	A science story, huh?
0:31.4	Is that all you a scientist?
0:33.0	I felt.
0:35.1	And I just thought, well, it was it out. It was that golden moment.
0:39.4	Because science was on my side.
0:46.5	Hey, everyone.
0:49.5	I'm Ben Lilly.
0:50.4	And welcome to the Story Collider,
0:51.8	where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives.
0:55.8	A quick reminder, we'll be at the Cambridge Science Festival in Boston, April 16th.
1:00.0	Go to Storycollider.org for more details.
1:03.3	This week's story is from Stuart Firestein.
1:06.4	The story was recorded in March 2013 at Union Hall in Brooklyn.
1:12.6	The theme of the event was brain awareness.
1:21.1	I wasn't always a neuroscientist. I mean, I guess nobody was always a neuroscientist in some way. What I mean,
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