When Zach Weinersmith agrees to create a trivia game, he doesn’t realize how hard it is to come up with facts that are both interesting and actually true, and concerned about his eyesight, comedian Josh Johnson desperately searches for a good doctor.
Read MoreSkin Deep: Stories about racial disparities
While preparing for a lecture, Stacy Vasquez finds a racist term on a skin slide, and while learning about Lyme disease in medical school, LaShyra Nolen isn’t satisfied when the professor can’t tell her what the rash would look like on dark skin.
Read MoreAgainst the Odds: Stories from CZI's Rare As One Project
After ending up in the ER for the third time, Rachel Alvarez struggles to understand what’s going on with her health, and as a young adult with muscular dystrophy, Monkol Lek refuses to give up on his ambitions.
Read MoreFear in the Lab: Stories about confronting danger
Neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman is working late one night alone in the lab when she accidentally sticks herself with a needle full of deadly toxin, and Ali Mustafa finds that the scars of war stay with him even at his new job in the lab.
Read MoreObservations: Stories about noticing the details
Documentary filmmaker Caitlin Starowicz is so focused on making her movie about endangered Mountain Gorillas a success that she fails to see what’s in front of her, and for a story on escape rooms, journalist Danny Wicentowski studies the trials, triumphs, and strategies of the players.
Read MoreMariah Wilson: Anything To See A Forest Elephant
Documentary producer Mariah Wilson is days into making her film about the endangered Forest Elephant and still hasn’t seen one, and Science Journalist Katherine J. Wu interviews Mariah Wilson to learn more about the stars of her documentary Silent Forests.
Read MoreRoad Not Taken: Stories about what could have been
As a child who loves biology and has Caribbean immigrant parents, Calvin Cato feels pressure to become a doctor, and Shane Hanlon can’t help but compare his life choices to those of his hometown best friend.
Read MoreLies: Stories about playing along
While working as a camp counsellor at a camp for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses, Gabe Mollica is determined to keep his promise to one of the campers, and Collette Micks finds herself going along with her mom’s absurd plan to act like her father isn’t dying of cancer.
Read MoreCommunity: Stories about finding a place to belong
After his mentor and chemistry teacher uncle is murdered, Andre Isaacs feels adrift, and engineer Joey Jefferson doesn’t feel like he belongs in science as a black bisexual man.
Read MoreDogs: Stories about our furry friends
Dog trainer Chris Brown needs to up his skills when he adopts a former bait dog named Terror, and David Crabb has to make some tough decisions when his dog, Charlie, starts having seizures.
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