Over the course of The Story Collider's Women and Science issue, we'll bring you several interviews from the Double Xpression: Profiles of Women into Science series, starting with this profile of Deborah Berebichez, a physicist, author, and media personality who was the first Mexican woman to graduate with a physics PhD from Stanford University and now hosts National Geographic's Humanly Impossible. We're also releasing the Spanish-language version of Deborah's Story Collider story, "Passing On the Gift."
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Confirmation Bias & the Assessment of College Relationships
As a student, Eric Noah Feldman conducts two simultaneous experiments: one grant-funded research on the effects of gaseous nitric oxide on bees, the other on whether he and his neuroscientist girlfriend will last the summer sharing the same apartment.
Read MoreScience For Princesses
After being teased for her lack of femininity and love of math and science growing up, scientist Janet Stemwedel wages war against dumbed-down, pink "science kits for girls" on her blog. But her relationship with her own daughters leads her to question if the issue might be more complex than she thought.
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I Probably Could Have Used a Warning About PMS
From the very beginning, Lindsey Harris had a complicated relationship with her period. But when extreme PMS arrives on the scene, turning her into a "were-bitch" every month, she wonders if something might actually be wrong with her.
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Editor's Letter: Me & My Vagina
The first story that Story Collider host and producer Erin Barker ever told at the live show in Brooklyn was about her vagina. In honor of the Women and Science issue, we're re-releasing the podcast.
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We Are Science
The Story Collider celebrated its two-year anniversary with a show themed around #IAmScience—stories of twisted and unorthodox paths to careers in science. Since we could only have four stories in the event itself, we put together a short video featuring
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From the Orphanage to the Lab
Tom Haines went from a childhood spent in an orphanage during the 1930s and '40s to the head of the biochemistry department at City College, where he'd leave a lasting mark. All it took was a fly, a piano, and a little protozoan algae.
Read MoreLove & Quantum Mechanics
Story Collider Founder and Producer Brian Wecht explains how he ended up becoming a physicist instead of a composer. Here's a hint: It all started with a girl.
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Working in the Shadow of the Bomb
Story Collider Founder and Producer Ben Lillie reveals the secret ritual every theoretical high-energy physicist must go through, a ritual that brought him to a 7-Eleven parking lot on a chilly March night five years ago.
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What Science Owes the Rodeo
The ratio of scientists to cattle in Runge, Texas, is one to thousands, Shelley DuBois writes. That one scientist is her father. In this remarkable tribute, Shelley tells the story of how her father went from wrangling cattle in the South Texas desert to researching cancer and traveling the world.
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Owning My Narrative
As a black woman who grew up in urban L.A., LaTisha Hammond struggles to accept the fact that her background is different from that of her fellow marine biology students—and her inspiration for her work doesn't feel as worthy as their Jacques Cousteau dreams.
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Interview: Carl Zimmer, Stories From the Parasite Hole
Story Collider's Ben Lillie talks with well-known science writer Carl Zimmer about the story he told on our stage in September, the role of storytelling in science, and how to talk about parasites on a date.
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Science in the Blood
Stuart Cantrill, the chief editor of Nature Chemistry, remembers how he fell in love with science—through his relationship with his father, who suffered from the debilitating genetic disorder hemophilia.
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Editor's Letter: I Am Science. Well, You Are, Anyway...
This month, as part of The Story Collider's two-year anniversary, we're featuring #IAmScience—stories of people's twisted and unexpected paths to lives in science. Story Collider magazine editor Erin Barker, who definitely did not expect to be working on science stories, shares her #IAmScience story.
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Interview: Mike Brown, Stories From the Pluto Killer
Reporter Steven Berkowitz recently talked with Mike Brown, the man who killed Pluto (the planet, not the dog). His new book, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, is about, well . . . it's in the title. There's also a lot of storytelling in the book, so Steven talked to him about the role of story in science and science writing. Click the headline above to listen to the interview and read an excerpt from the book.
Read MoreQ&A With Matt Mercier: From the Aquarium to Edgar Allan Poe
On stage at the Story Collider last October, Matt Mercier told an extraordinary story of a high-school physics love triangle (really!), which became one of our most popular podcasts. What he didn't say in that story (because it wasn't relevant) was that he worked for a while as the docent of the Edgar Allan Poe house in the Bronx. We couldn't let that rest, though, so I called him up to talk about his work there, and discovered an unexpected connection to science . . . in the form of an aquarium and Poe's version of the Big Bang.
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Innocence
When David Dickerson returns to grad school at the age of thirty-one, he has high hopes for his love life because "science is on his side." His pursuit of romance leads him to a dark ocean at 3 a.m. for a moment he'll never forget. Presented in stunning illustrated form by artist Joe Wierenga.
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A Lesson in Rocketry
Marie-Claire Shanahan has always wanted to be a science teacher, and her science outreach program has been very successful. But when she and her colleagues journey to Kashechewan, an isolated First Nation community in northern Canada, she learns an important lesson that will change her as an educator forever.
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When Science Eases the Mind, If Not the Heart
A mother embarks on a mission of scientific discovery after tragedy strikes her family. But will her findings bring her the comfort she's seeking?
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Sunrise
Matt Strassler travels to Titusville, Florida—aka Space City, USA—in hopes of finally fulfilling his lifelong dream of seeing a real, live shuttle launch. But will the brief experience live up to his expectations? And more importantly, will it actually happen?
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