Anxiety: Stories about feelings of worry

Published: July 29, 2022, 11 a.m.

b'As the great Greek philosopher Epictetus said: \\u201cMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems\\u201d. It\\u2019s comforting to know that even in ancient Greece anxiety was a thing. In this week\\u2019s episode, both storytellers share stories of a time where their fears got the better of them.\\nPart 1: When biologist Melina Giakoumis can\\u2019t find a single sea star she starts to worry she\\u2019s not cut out to be a scientist.\\nPart 2: One question from a conference attendee sends math teacher Nancy Buck into panic spiral.\\nMelina Giakoumis is a PhD candidate in Biology at the City University of New York. She uses genomics, field surveys and ecological modeling to study marine invertebrates in the Atlantic Ocean. In particular, Melina is interested in the population dynamics of sea stars in the North Atlantic and their impact on the coastal community. Before starting her PhD, Melina was a research technician in the genomics lab of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where she sequenced the DNA of a huge variety of species, from bacteria to whales. Melina has spent lots of time poking around in the tide pools of New England, and hopes her research can be used for the conservation of these ecosystems. Melina currently lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two dachshunds.\\nNancy Buck currently teaches in a 6 - 12 school in Brooklyn. She is also a Master Teacher in the Math for America program. She believes that math is a beautiful and creative subject that allows people to understand the world around them. She works hard to create safe spaces so that all educators can see that both they and their students are mathematicians.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'