Wild: Stories about humans and animals coexisting

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🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week we present stories from two people finding their boundaries with the wild world of animals.

Part 1: Adam Selbst competes with tigers for the attention of his mother.

Part 2: Weighed down by the burden of leadership as she supervises the construction of a telescope, Erika Hamden finds comfort in an unlikely spot.

Adam Selbst is a writer and graphic designer from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He hosts the monthly Big Irv’s Storytelling Roadshow and has been performing around NYC for the last 8 years. Adam lives in a bodega art collective with 64 other people and in his spare time he enjoys being slowly poisoned by an ancient, weird mold in his shower and throwing elaborate dinner parties.

Erika Hamden is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Arizona. She develops UV detector technology, builds telescopes, and observes galaxies and hydrogen all over the universe. Her last project was a UV telescope that flew on a high altitude balloon. She is currently leading a team working on a proposal for a UV space telescope. When she isn't building or thinking about telescopes, she has a serious yoga practice, is learning to fly a plane, and loves hiking in the desert around Tucson. Before she went to grad school, Erika worked as a chef for a year. She is still really into eating. Erika is interested in sharing stories about how hardware gets built and the very human personalities that are behind scientific discoveries.

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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 really, but I was so...
0:09.0	And I just thought, well...
0:10.0	It was that golden moment.
0:13.0	Because science was on my side. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. I am your host, Aaron Barker. And I am your ailing host, Liz Neely. And this week,
0:41.2	we're presenting stories about the wild humans and animals coexisting. I'm so excited about this
0:47.5	theme. I love wild animals so much. And Aaron and I, we got to see tons of them on our most recent trip to Hawaii together.
0:56.6	Yes, we have recently returned from a series of shows and workshops that we are producing out in
1:01.6	Honolulu, which is why we are a little jet lagged. And a little sick. Some of us right now.
1:09.6	But probably nobody really feels bad for us.
1:12.9	True.
1:13.9	While we were in Honolulu and when I was on Kauai, I kept my eyes peeled and I saw
1:19.6	so many incredible things, including a native Hawaiian monk seal, which blew my mind.
1:25.5	But it made me feel bad to see how many of the other species I was looking at
1:29.3	are introduced a non-native species. Right. So those are what species that are kind of brought in
1:37.8	by visitors, by colonizers. Exactly. So and the problem is that they can sometimes out-compete native species or directly prey upon them or in some really grim cases cause rapid death syndrome among native Hawaiian tree species. It can be bad, yeah.
1:57.2	Rapid death syndrome does not sound great, I have to say. I don't think that's what I have, don't we?
2:02.7	Good. Great. Well, we've got two wild stories for you today. Liz, are you ready to introduce the first one?
2:10.2	So ready. Our first story is from Adam Selps. It was recorded in July 2019 at Caviot in New York City.
2:18.3	The theme that night was fireworks.
2:25.3	So my parents had just retired and they moved down to North Carolina.
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