Taken Seriously: Stories about wanting respect
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
While some people can fake it 'til they make it, others find that being taken seriously is a challenge, no matter what they do. In this week’s episode, both our storytellers share stories about trying to get the respect they deserve.
Part 1: Adam Ruben desperately wants to be seen as more than a junior scientist in his lab.
Part 2: When Larissa Zhou says she wants to make better food for outer space, no one takes her seriously.
Adam Ruben is a writer, comedian, and molecular biologist. He has appeared on the Food Network, Netflix, the Travel Channel, the Weather Channel, and currently hosts "What on Earth?" and "Ancient Unexplained Files" on the Science Channel and "Inventions that Changed History" on Discovery Plus, as well as writing for the Emmy-nominated PBS Kids show "Elinor Wonders Why." Adam writes the monthly humor column "Experimental Error" in the AAAS journal Science Careers and is the author of two books: Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School (Random House, 2010) and Pinball Wizards: Jackpots, Drains, and the Cult of the Silver Ball (Chicago Review Press, 2017). Learn more at adamruben.net.
Larissa Zhou is a PhD student at Harvard University, where she develops food technologies for low-resource environments. She loves to rock climb and cook. She's invested in building communities and transforming mentees into leaders, both in academia and on the mountain. Learn more at https://larissazhou.github.io/
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| 0:31.7 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:34.9 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:36.5 | I felt... |
| 0:37.4 | I was really... And I just thought, well... I figured it out. It was that... Is NYU scientist? I felt. |
| 0:40.4 | And I just thought, well, I figured it out. It was that golden moment. |
| 0:42.9 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:53.9 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to the story clutter, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
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| 1:25.2 | Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming. This week, our stories are |
| 1:29.2 | about being taken seriously, something I definitely struggle with. I can't tell you the number of |
| 1:35.7 | times I've been dismissed because I still kind of look like a teenage child. Just the other week, |
| 1:40.8 | I was in Germany with my mom, and we were at the car rental place waiting to get keys to our rented car. |
| 1:46.5 | And the man checking us in asked if I would be driving. |
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