Working Memory: Stories about how memory shapes us
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week, we present two stories of how memory impacts our lives, our families, and the way we see ourselves. Part 1: When Jirard Khalil is twelve years old, his mother suddenly starts to change. Part 2: A teacher’s social experiment lands fifth-grade Ben Lillie in an ethical dilemma. Jirard Khalil is a YouTuber, actor, writer, and performer. You can find him online at @JKCompletesIt on Twitter, and That One Video Gamer on YouTube. Ben Lillie, co-founder of The Story Collider, is a high-energy particle physicist who left the ivory tower for the wilds of New York's theater district. His current project is Caveat, an event space for entertaining talks and conversations opening September 5th on Manhattan's Lower East Side. He is also is a Moth StorySLAM champion, and was a writer and contributing editor for TED.com.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | It felt... |
| 0:08.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Glider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:28.0 | This week, we're bringing you stories on the theme of working memory, from the way we remember the events that impact us in childhood, to a family's attempt to reach someone whose memory is slipping away. |
| 0:38.3 | Our first story this week is from Gerard Khalil. It was recorded in October 2016 at the Mint |
| 0:43.6 | in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:48.7 | My last name's Khalil, because when my father immigrated to the States when he was young, |
| 0:53.0 | they switched his middle and last name. |
| 0:54.7 | So I am technically first generation Khalil. I have no relatives with the last name. I am the first |
| 1:00.0 | and hopefully not the last. But I want to share a story today about how they met and kind of just the |
| 1:07.1 | wonders of the world and how things kind of pan out. I wrote a three-page paper, basically, so bear with me as we get through this. |
| 1:14.5 | I'm just going to use that as references. |
| 1:17.9 | So Charles Khalil, or Charles Risha, as I've expressed to him, |
| 1:22.3 | came from the country of Lebanon in a war-torn state when he was, he moved to the state and he was |
| 1:29.4 | about 18 years old. He got really tired of living in, you know, a country that's falling apart. |
| 1:35.6 | And he wanted to make a name for himself by coming to America. So he moved to America. He learned |
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