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The Story Collider
Whether we wear a lab coat or haven't seen a test tube since grade school, science is shaping all of our lives. And that means we all have science stories to tell. Every year, we host dozens of live shows all over the country, featuring all kinds of storytellers - researchers, doctors, and engineers...
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Best of Story Collider: Loneliness
This week, we're re-airing two classic stories about finding friends. Science can be a lonely job -- but it can also connect us to others in ways we'd...
Not a Straight Line: Stories about becoming a science journalist
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers share the unconventional paths that led them into science journalism.
Part 1: Keren Landman alw...
Manhood: Stories about masculinity
What does it actually mean to “be a man”? In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers grapple with masculinity and are forced to confront what ma...
Speak Up: Stories about self-advocacy
In a perfect world, getting the health care you need wouldn’t require fighting for it. But in this week’s episode, both of our storytellers discover j...
Thalassophobia: Stories about fear of the ocean
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers come face to face with one of their deepest fears: the ocean.
Part 1: When the children’s TV s...
Best of Story Collider: Love and Technology
In this week’s Best Of episode, we present stories from people who navigated our changing relationship to technology.
Part 1: As a kid, Samy Ka...
Above and Beyond: Stories about the lengths we go to for loved ones
In this week’s episode, both storytellers discover just how far people will go for the ones they love.
Part 1: When Bailey Swilley’s dad goes in...
Gluten: Stories about the love of bread
In this week’s episode, storytellers share stories about carbs, control, and the unexpected ways bread shapes our lives.
Part 1: When everyone i...
Trying: Stories about fertility
In this week’s episode, we’re bringing you two stories about navigating the uncertainty, hope, and heartbreak of trying to have a baby.
Part 1:...
Best of Story Collider: Leaving Home
In this week’s Best Of episode, we present two stories of people who had to leave home to find a new home.
Part 1: When Ph.D student Ali Mattu's...
In Memory Of: Stories about honoring loved ones
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers reflect on the ways we try to hold onto the people we love.
Part 1: Gwendolyn Napier is left he...
Balaena: Stories about whales
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers share tales about whales.
Part 1: As a child, Brittany Munson dreams of growing up to be a wha...
Impending Doom: Stories about facing the scary unknown
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers are forced to confront the terrifying unknown and decide how to live in the shadow of what might come...
A Science Journalist Tries to Hack Heartbreak | From A Slight Change of Plans
When her twenty-five year marriage unexpectedly fell apart, science writer Florence Williams (author of Heartbreak) felt shocked and blindsided. Such...
Outer Layer: Stories about literal and metaphorical shields
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers build shields to protect themselves and discover what happens when those defences fail.
Part 1:...
Stories of Urban Climate Change: Air
Oxygen sustains almost every living thing on the planet and the air we breathe is meant to be invisible. But industrialization has changed that. In ma...
Stories of Urban Climate Change: Fire
Wildfires have become more frequent and more destructive in recent years, increasingly threatening communities on the edges of — and sometimes within...
Stories of Urban Climate Change: Water
Water covers roughly 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface and is essential for human survival. But it can also unleash devastating consequences.
I...
Stories of Urban Climate Change: Earth
Climate change doesn’t happen in the abstract. It happens where we live, work, and raise our families.
In this special Story Collider series, ea...
Best of Story Collider: Women in Science
This week, in honor of Women's History Month, we're presenting two stories from our archive about women in science and the unique challenges they face...
Stories of Urban Climate Change
This April, The Story Collider presents a special series on urban climate change.
Through eight true, personal stories about science, we explore...
Chorea: Stories about science and dance
In this week’s episode, both storytellers explore the surprising connections between dance and science.
Part 1: Learning a modern version of her...
Where Does It Hurt: Stories about the importance of compassion in healthcare
In this week’s episode, both storytellers share stories that illustrate why empathy, kindness, and humanity are essential to healthcare.
Part 1:...
Tresses: Stories about the power of hair
Hair might seem trivial, but for many of us it carries history, identity, and meaning far beyond keratin. In this week’s episode, both of our storytel...
Best of Story Collider: Navigating Whiteness
This week we present two stories from Black people who were dealing with the ramifications of our racist systems.
Part 1: As a science teacher,...
Like Me: Stories about finding representation in STEM
Science can feel isolating when you don’t see yourself reflected around you. This episode brings together two stories about the search for representat...
Anti-Love: Stories about heartbreak and break ups
Valentine’s Day may be all about couples, but this week’s episode celebrates heartbreak, breakups, and proudly being single as a Pringle.
Part 1...
Pay It Forward: Stories from CZI's Rare As One Project
Both of this week’s stories come from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Rare As One Project grantees, who share their deeply personal experiences with rar...
Best of Story Collider: Dating by the Numbers
This week we present two classic stories from people who found an intersection between numbers and their sex life.
Part 1: When online dating i...
Misinformation: Stories about the impact of false information
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers confront the real-world consequences of misinformation—and how it can spread faster than the truth.
Choice: Stories about struggling to make the right call
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers find themselves reckoning with the choices they’ve made—discovering how a single decision, whether ma...
AI: Stories about artificial intelligence
In this week’s episode, both our storytellers come face to face with the growing power—and pitfalls—of artificial intelligence.
Part 1: When AI...
Hubris: Stories about over-confidence
In this week’s episode, like Icarus, both our storytellers fly a little too close to the sun—and learn the hard way that confidence doesn’t always equ...
Best of Story Collider: A Whole New World
In this week’s “Best Of” episode, we present two stories of people having to navigate a new world.
Part 1: Sean Bearden has never been intereste...
Don't Be Dramatic: Stories about downplaying it
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers look back on moments that might have deserved a little more drama than they got at the time.
Pa...
Coasting: Stories about having it easy
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers reckon with what happens when success doesn’t come so easily anymore.
Part 1: After years of ac...
Attitude: Stories about inner strength
Attitude is everything—and this week’s storytellers prove it. Even when life throws challenges their way, they show how perspective and perseverance c...
Best of Story Collider: Animal Rescue
This week we present two classic stories from people who got called into action to save an animal they didn’t know they’d be called to save.
Par...
Bad News: Stories about tough conversations
In this week’s episode, both storytellers must navigate heartbreaking dilemmas as they try to figure out how to convey crushing news.
Part 1: Wh...
In Deep: Stories about being in over your head
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers bite off a bit more than they can chew.
Part 1: Fresh out of college and in what seems like h...