11:00 AM Pacific Time: Thursdays
Choose to Be Curious is a show all about curiosity. We talk about research and theory, but mostly it’s conversations about how curiosity shows up in work and life.
Hosted by Lynn Borton.
Lady Borton has spent many years living and working in Việt Nam, providing relief services during the war and collecting stories and history ever since — trying to make sense of the era, the place, the people — before the stories are lost to time or erasure. She wrote to me, “Because I don’t know … Continued
Do you have a sense of purpose? What does that mean to you? And, what place does curiosity have in finding and living one’s purpose? There’s a lot of research going on around purpose. Purpose Commons is moving that research into practice — and focusing it on youth. Purpose Commons’ executive director TeRay Esquibel and … Continued
As the world’s largest online information resource, Wikipedia knows a thing or two about how our curiosity shows up. I wondered: as our information landscape changes, how does Wikipedia adjust? And our curiosity? Lisa Seitz Gruwell, Chief Advancement Officer at Wikimedia Foundation, joined me to reflect on what’s worked and the importance of making time … Continued
Art Cullen is the editor and co-owner with his brother John of the Storm Lake Times Pilot, a weekly newspaper in that Northwest Iowa county seat – a town of about 12,000. In 2017, Art won the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing “for editorials fueled by tenacious reporting, impressive expertise, and engaging writing that successfully challenged powerful corporate agricultural … Continued
I don’t know about you, but sometimes the curiosity just isn’t there for me. I “fake it until I make it”– I act like I’m curious. I behave in curious ways, in hopes the feelings will follow. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were an app for that? Enter The Humane Space. Lauren Henkin created … Continued
Chronolog is a way to generate time-lapse images of Earth, powered by your camera — and your curiosity. Used by organizations worldwide to monitor the environment and inspire our stewardship of our natural resources, this nifty citizen science effort capitalizes on our casual interest. Pretty clever. Theme music by Sean Balick; “A Catalog of Seasons” … Continued
Teacher Micaela Pond felt called in yet another direction following the first election of Donald Trump. She soon emerged as a formidable community organizer. I asked her to reflect on curiosity in the work of fighting authoritarianism through community action. Theme music by Sean Balick; “Spunk Lit” by Love & Weasel, via Blue Dot Sessions.
Yvonne Marchese is the lovely and effervescent host of Late Bloomer Living a weekly podcast devoted to redefining what’s possible in midlife and beyond. She’s a self-described age agitator, play instigator and believer in do-overs on a journey of discovery around that aforementioned play — which brought her, as it can, to curiosity. “When we’re … Continued
James Hatch spent 26 years in military service, 22 of them as a Navy SEAL. His military career ended in 2009 when he was severely injured, his life saved by his teammates and their working dog. That marked the beginning of a long and challenging recovery that included multiple surgeries and mental health struggles. In 2019, … Continued
Kids are learning machines…but how do they do it? Cognitive scientist Elizabeth Bonawitz is helping us understand how children learn to learn and what role curiosity has to play in those processes. From dinner table placemats to trading stickers for science facts, she finds creative ways to get at the heart of this most human … Continued
