Page to Ecosystem: What We Lose When We Streamline & Standardize Stories

Welcome back to Steeped in Storytelling. I’m voiceover artist Sarah DeLong, and I love weaving connections between art and science. 

Today we’re venturing into the tangled garden of narrative ecosystems—how stories live, grow, cross-pollinate, and what happens when we start pruning for profit, predictability, or ease.

 

Show Notes

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Steeped in Storytelling, Season 1, Episode 9 “Page to Ecosystem: What We Lose When We Streamline and Standardize Stories.” Hosted and Produced by DeLong Voiceover. Released 25 December 2025 via Podbean.

Some of the spaces I spent time in, researching for this episode: 

• Frontiers in Neuroscience
• National Institutes of Health
• National Library of Medicine
• ScienceDirect.com
• NeuroscienceNews.com
• National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Wikipedia
• My garden  

Sound Credits

• Sound effects by freesound_community from Pixabay
• Music by folk_acoustic from Pixabay