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The Story Collider

Technological Advancements: Stories about the ways technology impacts our lives

The Story Collider

Story Collider, Inc.

Performing Arts, Society & Culture, Arts, Personal Journals, Science

4.4824 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Part 1: Blind athlete Simon Wheatcroft finds a way to run marathons by himself. Part 2: Worried she won't ever be able to commit to one field of study, Dale Markowitz decides to go all in on a neuroscience project. Simon Wheatcroft’s utilization of technology has enabled him to achieve incredible goals. From learning to train solo outdoors as a blind runner, to crossing deserts alone. It is his ability to adapt technology and engage those who create it, to redefine possibilities. His vast experience in the world of technology and psychology give him a fantastic base for his talks on diversity, inclusion and technology. Simon continues to push boundaries and motivate others to: reimagine what is possible through changes in thought processes; and believe that anything is possible. Dale Markowitz is an engineer and data scientist at OkCupid, where she spends endless hours contemplating the mechanics of romance and attraction. She graduated from Princeton University, where she bounced from physics to math to neuroscience before landing on a major in Computer Science. When she's not bugging people for stories about their online love lives, she can be found pondering math riddles or blogging on Medium @unquarked.

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0:00.0

This week's podcast is brought to you by the Girls of Ennis Moor.

0:03.1

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0:06.8

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0:12.3

On the brink of the Irish Rebellion, two girls from vastly different backgrounds form an unlikely friendship,

0:17.3

even as each struggles to overcome the barriers of class and birthright.

0:21.1

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0:25.3

More information is at Kensington Books.com.

0:31.3

A science story, huh?

0:34.5

Is NYU scientist the...

0:36.3

I felt...

0:37.0

I was really... And I just thought, felt... I was so...

0:38.3

And I just thought, well...

0:39.3

It was that golden moment.

0:42.3

Because science was on my side.

0:48.3

Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Storyglider, where we bring you true personal stories about science.

0:56.8

This week, we'll bring you two stories about technological advancements.

1:00.5

A blind athlete tries to run a marathon by himself, and a flighty student tries to commit to a single project.

1:06.9

Our first story this week is from Simon Wheatcroft.

1:09.5

It was recorded in October 2016 at the Manchester Science Festival in Manchester, England.

1:19.0

Come up.

1:22.9

Lay down.

1:24.9

They're not looking at you.

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