After being bullied for his sexuality as a kid, Scott Taylor hesitates to bring his full self to his identity as a scientist and Kamryn Parker’s high school history teacher unwittingly influences her scientific journey.

Curtis Chou becomes dogmatic in his quest to correct a person’s incorrect fact on the internet and Richard Cardillo is determined to uncover a priest’s secret to keeping a thriving cactus collection.

In anticipation of our upcoming Proton Prom, this week we’re re-airing the first Story Collider stories from two of the storytellers who will be performing at the event.

It’s almost magical how a combination of just A, C, T, and G entirely determine who we are. In this week’s episode both our storytellers look at how their genes impact their lives.

Heather Galindo studies her lab mates in hopes of understanding what it means to be a scientist and when Rob Ulrich leaves their small town to study science, they keep waiting to feel like they belong somewhere.

During a visit to her doctor, comedian Angel Yau finds herself answering “always” to every question on the mental health evaluation and scientist Valerie Bentivegna doesn’t know what to do when her PhD supervisors tell her that her thesis isn’t good enough.

When neuroscientist Macayla Donegan's partner is diagnosed with brain cancer, she's forced to make some tough decisions and when Anant Paravatsu struggles in school, his mother comes to his rescue.

Neuroscientist B. Blair Braden is confused as to why her neighbour doesn’t pick up on any of her social cues and for her entire life Behavioral Neuroscientist Susan Rapley doesn’t understand why she can’t fit in.

Comedian Riley Silverman attempts to use science to change the course of puberty and comedian Ang Buxton explores the differences in gender expectations from the football field to the middle school cafeteria.