Rose Eveleth always wanted to be fiercely independent. But sometimes being too independent has its downsides.
Rose Eveleth is a writer, producer, and designer based in Brooklyn. She's dabbled in everything from research on krill to animations about beer to podcasts about fake tumbleweed farms. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, The Atlantic, BBC Future, Deadspin and more. She also produces the podcast for The Story Collider, a show you might have heard of.
This story originally aired on June 19, 2015.
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