Best of Story Collider: A Whole New World

In this week’s “Best Of” episode, we present two stories of people having to navigate a new world.

Part 1: Sean Bearden has never been interested in education, but when he's incarcerated at the age of 19, he finds a passion for physics.

Part 2: When Victoria Manning decides to get a cochlear implant, she fears losing her identity as a deaf person.

Sean Bearden is a Ph. D. candidate in Physics at UC San Diego, researching the application and development of memcomputing systems, a novel computing paradigm. Identifying as a nontraditional student, Sean went from d...