Jim O'Grady: You, me, and the monkey

Published: Nov. 10, 2013, 9 p.m.

b'Jim O\'Grady\'s attempts to woo his housemate are stymied by the monkey she\'s training to help quadriplegics. Jim O\'Grady is a reporter for WNYC Radio and a Moth GrandSLAM champ. He has worked as a reporter for The New York Times, a professor of journalism at NYU and research director at The Center for an Urban Future. That\'s a policy think tank for whom he co-wrote this science-y report: http://bit.ly/7vx5Ei. He is the author of two biographies, Dorothy Day: With Love for the Poor and Disarmed & Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan. Ask him how his high school science teacher, who was a nut job, pronounced "mitochondria." Every week the Story Collider brings you a true, personal story about science. Find more and subscribe to our podcast at our website: storycollider.org/\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'