NPR Science Desk reporter Adam Cole goes behind the scenes on his storytelling method, covering everything from Agatha Christie (and her lovely sister Madge), pregnant snakes and Purple Martins.
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Adam Cole was born in the great state of Oregon and educated on a farm near San Francisco. He studied pregnant garter snakes, the physics of mussels, and cancer-causing genes before starting work as a newspaper reporter in a small dairy community. A youtube video about poop landed him a gig at NPR, and they haven’t been able to get rid of him since. Now he makes animations, videos, illustrations and radio for the science desk.
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“If you can get people to be curious, they are much more likely to change their views. — Adam Cole
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“When you put down words to a page, sometimes you get in the way of the way that you talk. — Adam Cole
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Part 5. The summation gathering ;)
Did anyone catch the parts that he mentioned?
Stories Part 1. The Characters Part 2. Part 3. Rounding Up The Suspects Part 4. The Clues