Tara Clancy: A bartender from Queens learns theoretical physics
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2013
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Tara Clancy's worry over making bad life choices leads her to think about all the things she doesn't know -- and from there, obviously, to theoretical physics.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt... |
| 0:08.0 | ...and I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment... |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | ... Hi, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:31.9 | A quick reminder, we have two upcoming events. February 5th in New York is Love and Science, and February 15th in Boston is |
| 0:39.6 | metamorphosis. See storycollider.org for more details. This week's story is from Tara Clancy. The story was |
| 0:47.8 | recorded in January, 2013, at Union Hall in Brooklyn. The theme of the event was |
| 0:53.5 | Behind the Scenes. and Union Hall in Brooklyn. The theme of the event was behind the scenes. |
| 0:58.4 | All right. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm standing online at a dollar store in Cottonwood, Arizona. |
| 1:05.8 | It's called Family Dollar, which makes me feel bad, you know, |
| 1:10.4 | as if the families who shop here have only |
| 1:12.3 | one sole dollar, which sadly they must refer to as the family dollar, and I realize that this |
| 1:18.0 | does not make any sense, but now as I am standing there, I have conjured an image in my mind of |
| 1:22.3 | an entire family sitting around their kitchen table, staring at a dollar bill in a picture |
| 1:26.8 | frame. So, the line moves, and I snap out of it, but at a dollar bill in a picture frame. |
| 1:30.5 | So the line moves and I snap out of it. |
| 1:34.6 | But then I realize that in front of me there is a very, very overweight woman. |
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