When I Was a Scientist: Stories about an earlier life
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week we present two stories from people who used to be scientists.
Part 1: Despite loving science, Ivan Decker's first exposure to field work doesn't go as planned.
Part 2: Nathan Min tries to pursue a 'respectable' scientific career, but finds himself relating to the mice he studies.
Originally from Vancouver, Ivan Decker is a stand-up comedian that now makes his home in Los Angeles California. He has been featured on CBC, CTV, TBS and many other media outlets as part of shows such as: The Debaters, Just for Laughs, CONAN and he has a half hour special on NETFLIX. In 2018, Ivan was also the first Canadian to win a JUNO award for comedy album of the year since the award was given to Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas for the soundtrack to the movie strange brew in 1984.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it was right. |
| 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 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:25.5 | Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:29.8 | We are your host, Erin Barker and Liz Neely. |
| 0:32.8 | And this week, we are presenting stories from people who did research at some point in their past. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to our episode, When I Was a Scientist. |
| 0:42.6 | Yes, and your host today, me and Liz, one of us has been a scientist or has worked in science previously, |
| 0:49.9 | and one of us last experienced science directly when she took Plant Biology 101 Plants and People in college. |
| 0:57.9 | Can you guess which of us is which? |
| 1:02.6 | Oh, man. |
| 1:03.8 | I feel like you've gotten really, you know, a lot of like mileage out of that class. |
| 1:08.2 | It left a lasting impression on you. |
| 1:10.4 | I mean, yeah, to be to be fair, |
| 1:12.1 | it was very impactful. You can find out more from my story on the podcast about that. But Liz, |
| 1:18.5 | do you miss doing science all day? I'm honestly, yeah, I do. I mean, it didn't, of course, it didn it didn't hurt like i was a marine biologist |
| 1:30.5 | who got to work in places like belize and bermuda and like jamaica and mexico and fiji and |
| 1:36.5 | papua new guinea like yeah that's that's pretty amazing but i miss like people forget sometimes |
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