Rescue: Stories about taking care of others
b"This week, we're presenting stories about times when science comes to the rescue \\u2014 or not, as the case may be.\\xa0\\nPart 1: When science writer Kate Sheridan falls in love with a man who suffers from paralyzing headaches, her background in neuroscience helps her get to the bottom of it. \\xa0\\nPart 2: Math teacher Giselle George-Gilkes is on a trip with her students when she receives terrible news from home.\\nKate Sheridan is a science writer based in Boston, where she lives with a remarkably fluffy cat. Her writing\\u2014much of which has to do with the flu, gene therapies, and other health-related stuff\\u2014has appeared in Newsweek, STAT, and the Montreal Gazette. She graduated from McGill University with a bachelor\\u2019s degree in cognitive science in 2014.\\n\\nGiselle George-Gilkes is originally from the Nature Island of the Caribbean, Dominica. She\\u2019s been the 8th grade Math teacher, at East Side Community High School, since 2005. She graduated from Brooklyn College with a BS in Mathematics and from NYU with an MA in Mathematics Education. She loves mathematics and tries her best to help each student who walks through my door, either fall in love with it or gain a deeper appreciation of it. She is currently in her third fellowship as a Math for America Master Teacher, where she gets to work with an amazing group of educators, from whom she has learned a lot as she's grown as an educator.\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"