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The Einstein Card

By Tom Miller on April 22, 2010 4:01 PM | Comment (2)
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One of the great things about my job as a Producer for "The Secret Life of Scientists" is that I spend a lot of time with people who are almost always wrong. Here's a sampling:
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"So often in the lab I look at my cells, and they're not behaving, and there's so many things that are going wrong. I get so frustrated, and I think 'Why am I doing this?'"

--Eva Vertes, Cancer Researcher

"There's a frustrating, frightening feeling when you can't figure out what's going wrong--even though the experiment has failed again and again and again."

--Nate Ball, Mechanical Engineer/Inventor

"In science, you're wrong over and over again. Then you have a moment of clarity--then you're wrong again!"

--Allan Adams, MIT Physicist

And these are the smart kids?

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Tom Miller

As a Producer for “The Secret Life of Scientists,” Tom gets to meet and interview totally cool scientists and engineers who juggle, win beauty pageants, play in rock bands, wrestle professionally, and take photographs of monkey feet. He’s very grateful for the gig. Prior to working on “Secret Life,” Tom wrote, produced, and/or edited shows for a veritable alphabet soup of networks, including PBS, HBO, HGTV, and TBS. In an earlier incarnation, Tom did social work, including a stint as a counselor for teenage prisoners at Rikers Island. One of the other workers at the jail once mistook Tom for a prisoner and told him that he “could still turn his life around if he worked really hard.” Tom’s still waiting to see how that one plays out. Back when the Earth was still cooling, Tom snuck in the backdoor at Harvard and came out with a degree in English and American Literature.

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