
Everyone has a personal connection to science.
Maybe you were reaching for a Nobel Prize with your high school science fair project until an unforeseeable error caused it to go down in flames. Or, perhaps you’ve been a researcher on an expedition thousands of miles from home, surrounded by people who don’t understand what you’re doing there. Or, you’ve listened to your doctor diagnose you with a condition that you’ve never heard of before. Whatever your science story is, we want to hear about it.
In 2017, St. Louis Public Radio partnered up with The Story Collider, a podcast that produces shows where personal stories about science are told live on stage. The Story Collider was founded by two physicists in 2010 and regularly puts on shows in New York City, Boston, Atlanta and various other cities around the world.
The Story Collider in St. Louis is produced by Gabe Montesanti and Sam Lyons.
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Danny Wicentowski became obsessed with writing about an escape room — and became trapped himself.
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When Kenny Kinds got accepted into engineering school, it was the best and worst day of his life.As a teenager, he knew it wasn’t his dream. It was his…
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Chanté Summers was expecting an uneventful day when she walked into her chemistry laboratory three years ago at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.…
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The reason someone chooses to pursue science can be complicated. For Samuel Achilefu, a cancer researcher at the Washington University School of Medicine,…
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OtherOn Thursday, June 28, Science Reporter Eli Chen and comedian and writer Zack Stovall hosted another sold out Story Collider event at The Ready Room.The…
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OtherAwards. Recognition. And a party! Last week's sudden loss of our beloved friend and colleague Gerry Rohde reinforced the need to celebrate each other more…
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It’s a fact that as humans, we have to deal with the curveballs life throws at us. For example, Emma Young, a Ph.D biology student at University of…
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Even as a young boy, Andrew Oberle knew exactly what he wanted to do for a living: work with chimpanzees. He was living his dream six years ago at an…
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The night began with a story told by a science journalist who tried to cure her autoimmune disease by swallowing parasitic worms. It finished with the…
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On May 2, St. Louis Public Radio hosted The Story Collider, a national podcast and live storytelling group, for an evening of personal stories about…