Every year, we host live shows - in person and online - Around the world with all kinds of storytellers: researchers, doctors, and engineers, of course, but also patients, poets, comedians, and more. Our team’s favorite stories from those shows land on our weekly podcast. Some of the stories are heartbreaking, others are hilarious. They're all true and all very personal.

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Best of Story Collider: Animal Rescue
Best of Story Collider: Animal Rescue

While running an errand, Andrea Azarian happens upon a lost horse that needs her help, and left in charge of the farm for the first time, Gwynne Hogan panics when a goat goes into labor.

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Five women take the stage to share intimate, funny, and fearless tales from their personal journeys through the mysteries of their own bodies.

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Each year, we help hundreds of STEM professionals and science enthusiasts learn to use the power of storytelling to enhance their scholarly communication, classroom teaching, public engagement, advocacy work, and more.

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Best of Story Collider: Animal Rescue
Best of Story Collider: Animal Rescue

While running an errand, Andrea Azarian happens upon a lost horse that needs her help, and left in charge of the farm for the first time, Gwynne Hogan panics when a goat goes into labor.

Bad News: Stories about tough conversations
Bad News: Stories about tough conversations

While doing fieldwork in the Congo, Stella Mayerhoff must track down a local researcher to deliver devastating news, and during his second year of residency, Sam Blackman is tasked with caring for a dying child whose mother’s unwavering faith clashes with his scientific approach.

In Deep: Stories about being in over your head
In Deep: Stories about being in over your head

Fresh out of college and in what seems like her dream job, drug and alcohol coach Rhana Hashemi quickly realizes she has no idea how to connect with the high school students she’s supposed to help, and when Paul Davis and his wife struggle to get pregnant, they decide to foster a pregnant dog—and things escalate quickly.

Silenced Science: Stories about the suppression of science
Silenced Science: Stories about the suppression of science

When an epidemiologist dedicated to preventing violence against children is suddenly fired from the CDC, she is left grappling with both the shock of losing her job and the uncertainty of what comes next, and at a global climate conference, climate scientist Tom Di Liberto learns that Trump has been re-elected—and feels the weight of what that means for him and the fight against climate change.

Best of Story Collider: Fear
Best of Story Collider: Fear

As a newly minted PhD student in geology, Erik Klemetti starts to question his decisions when Aucanquilcha, a 20,000-foot volcano in Chile, proves difficult to tame, and explorer George Kourounis finds himself growing increasingly anxious as he prepares to enter a fiery sinkhole known as the “Doorway to Hell.”

Bad Trip: Stories about a negative drug-taking experience
Bad Trip: Stories about a negative drug-taking experience

At his friend’s bachelor party, Andrew McGill joins in on a mushroom trip that quickly spirals out of control, and in an attempt to calm his nerves about going on an Alaskan cruise, Will Clegg turns to marijuana.

OCD: Stories about obsessive compulsive disorder
OCD: Stories about obsessive compulsive disorder

For Hannah Hedelius, a classmate’s hiccups trigger an overwhelming reaction she can’t hold back, and as a graduate student, Rachel Hostetler begins to realize that her intrusive thoughts may be more than just regular stress.

Blood & Guts: Stories about hemoglobin and intestines
Blood & Guts: Stories about hemoglobin and intestines

Shawn Musgrave wants to donate blood, but runs headfirst into the FDA’s lifetime ban on gay men as donors, and while working with the condor recovery program, Molly Astell opens a freezer to find every researcher’s nightmare.

Close Calls: Stories about near misses
Close Calls: Stories about near misses

On a trip to Colombia for a research conference, biologist Stephanie Galla must rely on her fight-or-flight instincts when she is cornered by a mugger with a knife, and an ordinary day takes a shocking turn when Kim Weaver is struck by lightning.

Best of Story Collider: Hypothesis
Best of Story Collider: Hypothesis

Teaching sixth grade science becomes much more difficult when Xochitl Garcia's students start hypothesizing that fire is alive, and when journalist John Rennie is assigned to cover an entomological society event where insects are served as food, he sees an opportunity to face his fear of bugs.

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