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<p>This week we present two classic stories about people struggling with their identity.</p><p><strong>Part 1:</strong> When science journalist Katherine Wu interviews a scientist about a new facial recognition algorithm, the conversation turns more personal than she expected. </p><p><strong>Part 2: </strong>Hurricane Katrina gives Mary Annaise Heglar a new perspective on both her grandfather and home state. </p><p><em>Katherine J. Wu is a Boston-based science journalist and storyteller whose writing has appeared in Smithsonian magazine, Scientific American, NOVA Next, and more. She's also a senior producer for The Story Collider. In 2018, she earned a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunobiology from Harvard University, where she studied how bacteria deal with stress so she could one day learn to do the same. She can spell "tacocat" backwards. </em></p><p><em>Mary Annaise Heglar is an author and communications consultant based in Birmingham, AL. Her writing has been published in Vox,...