A Lesson in Rocketry
Marie-Claire Shanahan has always wanted to be a science teacher, and her science outreach program has been very successful. But when she and her colleagues journey to Kashechewan, an isolated First...
View ArticleEditor’s Letter: I Am Science. Well, You Are, Anyway…
This month, as part of The Story Collider's two-year anniversary, we're featuring #IAmScience—stories of people's twisted and unexpected paths to lives in science. Story Collider magazine editor Erin...
View ArticleOwning My Narrative
As a black woman who grew up in urban L.A., LaTisha Hammond struggles to accept the fact that her background is different from that of her fellow marine biology students—and her inspiration for her...
View ArticleWhat Science Owes the Rodeo
The ratio of scientists to cattle in Runge, Texas, is one to thousands, Shelley DuBois writes. That one scientist is her father. In this remarkable tribute, Shelley tells the story of how her father...
View ArticleWorking in the Shadow of the Bomb
Story Collider Founder and Producer Ben Lillie reveals the secret ritual every theoretical high-energy physicist must go through, a ritual that brought him to a 7-Eleven parking lot on a chilly March...
View ArticleLove & Quantum Mechanics
Story Collider Founder and Producer Brian Wecht explains how he ended up becoming a physicist instead of a composer. Here's a hint: It all started with a girl.
View ArticleOur Audience Is (Not) Science
At our second-year anniversary show last Tuesday we wanted to hear stories from the audience. The evening was about twisted and unorthodox paths to careers in science, so we handed out slips that...
View ArticleFrom the Orphanage to the Lab
Tom Haines went from a childhood spent in an orphanage during the 1930s and '40s to the head of the biochemistry department at City College, where he'd leave a lasting mark. All it took was a fly, a...
View ArticleScience For Princesses
After being teased for her lack of femininity and love of math and science growing up, scientist Janet Stemwedel wages war against dumbed-down, pink "science kits for girls" on her blog. But her...
View ArticleConfirmation Bias & the Assessment of College Relationships
As a student, Eric Noah Feldman conducts two simultaneous experiments: one grant-funded research on the effects of gaseous nitric oxide on bees, the other on whether he and his neuroscientist...
View ArticleQ&A With Deborah Berebichez: Seeing the World Through Physics Glasses
Over the course of The Story Collider's Women and Science issue, we'll bring you several interviews from the Double Xpression: Profiles of Women into Science series, starting with this profile of...
View ArticleQ&A With Mariette DiChristina: Born a Scientist
Mariette DiChristina tells Double X Science about her life as editor in chief of Scientific American, expressing her femininity as a scientist, and angry letters from readers.
View ArticleQ&A With Darlene Cavalier: Cheering for Science
Darlene Cavalier, founder of Science Cheerleader and SciStarter, explains how she challenges stereotypes in science with the power of cheerleading.
View ArticleHow to Pronounce Death
As a medical student, Matthew Pantell learns a real-life lesson medical school couldn't prepare him for: how to pronounce someone dead.
View ArticleThe Frog Story
A high school student learns some uncomfortable truths about herself after her science project turns deadly.
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