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Richard Pollack: The wobbly table
Richard Pollack finds himself moderating an uneasy negotiation between Israelis and Jordanians, as part of an international effort to stem a scourge …
12 years, 7 months ago
John Rennie: The lab safety officer
After he's named lab safety officer, John Rennie must recover a precious sample from the bottom of a vat of liquid nitrogen. So he reaches in. John R…
12 years, 7 months ago
Darcy Burke: The mountain lion book
Darcy Burke's mother gave her a book on mountain lions, and it had the effect that every science writer wishes their book will have. Kind of. Every w…
12 years, 7 months ago
Aditi: How to impress your graduate advisor
As a new, super competitive, graduate student Aditi thinks she has the perfect way to impress her advisor and labmates ... until one night it spirals…
12 years, 8 months ago
Kimberly Rae Miller: Let's fix dad
Kimberly Rae Miller's family had a secret: her dad was a hoarder. But when she begins digging into the research on hoarding, she finds it's not nearl…
12 years, 8 months ago
Sara Peters and Peter Aguero: Praying for a seizure
Sara Peters has epilepsy, but no drugs seem to help. So she agrees to be hooked up to a machine at the hospital for days, in hopes of inducing the on…
12 years, 8 months ago
Ben Moskowitz: Cheating the snake
When Ben Moskowitz gets to take special classes in elementary school, he's excited at first, but then he starts to realize there might be something d…
12 years, 8 months ago
Alex Brown: The nature of time and meningitis
Science writer Alex Brown's philosophical education becomes very practical when he is diagnosed with meningitis. Every week the Story Collider brings…
12 years, 9 months ago
Susannah Cahalan: Patient #217
Three years after a mysterious illness nearly drove her insane and took her life, Susannah Cahalan visits a patient with the same rare, dangerous con…
12 years, 9 months ago
Elna Baker: Nerd day
Elna Baker's grade school reputation faces it's greatest threat: her engineer father's enthusiasm for homework. Every week the Story Collider brings …
12 years, 9 months ago