What makes us look up at the night sky with wonder? What are the stories behind the sparkle of the stars and the glow of the moon and the bump in the night? And what's the science?
Friday July 9th at 7 pm ET, join us this month as we present three stories of the ways in which the night sky has been a part of our lives! And we'll invite our audience to share their ten-word stories as well!
This event is free, or you may pay up to $50 on a sliding scale if you wish to donate to The Story Collider. Reserve your spot and watch here or on the page below!
Stories by:
Dr. Moiya McTier is an astrophysicist, folklorist, and science communicator based in NYC. She's written a science fiction novel, given hundreds of talks about science around the world, and helped design exhibits for the New York Hall of Science. Moiya's favorite way to combine her unique set of expertise is to build fictional worlds based on facts and science, which she does through workshops, classes, and her podcast Exolore. You can learn more about Moiya and her work on her website moiyamctier.com.
Dr. Katherine Strickler is an ecologist, teacher, and science communicator at Washington State University. In different eras in her life, her research has focused on aquatic ecosystems (particularly streams), birds (specifically aquatic birds and raptors), bugs (especially the kind birds eat), the viability of imperiled wildlife populations, and the best ways to use environmental DNA to detect rare species. She strongly believes that the best way to make science impactful is to tell stories about it that fascinate other people as much as they do her. She also believes that the world is a better place when you feed people and that there is, somewhere in the universe, a recipe for the perfect chocolate chip cookie, and it's worth making as many batches of cookies as it takes to find it.
Steven Callahan has been messing about in boats professionally for over half a century, often exploring unbeaten paths and new technologies. Best known for authoring Capsized and Adrift, the latter a best seller chronicling his own 76-day survival drift in 1982, his diverse maritime background really began as a child in the early 1960s and has included, among other things, boat design and building, maritime journalism, illustration and photography, lecturing on safety and survival, and even consulting on feature films. He's made dozens of offshore passages since 1977 on boats as small as 21 feet and from radical racing craft to conventional cruisers.