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Choose to be Curious

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. Now syndicated and available via Pacifica RadioNetwork.

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Ep. #207: Seeing Differently: Curiosity, Creativity &...

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2023/11/02

You wouldn’t know it, given her passion for research and accumulation of impressive academic credentials, but one thing artist and educator Rebecca Kamen doesn't do very well is read. Only as an adult did she come to understand that she lives with dyslexia – a challenge in making the connection between the letters on a page and their meaning and sound – a challenge in reading. As we come to understand the human brain better, we’re also coming to see that dyslexia, once uniformly regarded as a

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Ep. #206: Cultivating a Curious Palate, with Jack Zhang

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2023/10/19

Instagram and TikTok sensation chef Jack Zhang, aka @CookingForLevi, has some things to teach the rest of us about the adventure that is food and toddlers. His delightful videos are proof that bringing a little curiosity into the kitchen can make mealtime magic happen. Young Levi is a curious eater, eagerly joining his parents on the culinary journey they're offering. Jack and his wife Emmy have just come out with Cultivating a Curious Palate, a cookbook of the delicious and exotic dishes Jack has

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Ep. #205: India Asks Why, with Ruchi Manglunia &...

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2023/10/05

Maybe it was the pandemic. Maybe curiosity is having a moment globally. I’m not sure what it is, but the thirst for learning and the attendant explosion of science communication efforts in India are noteworthy. I sat down with Ruchi Manglunia and Shweata N. Hegde, aka Jigyasa and Utsuka, the charming — and unapologetically curious — co-founders and hosts of India Asks Why, a “science podcast for young minds.” We talked about their inspiration, operation, and hopes for a more curious future. India

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Ep. #204: Curiosity, Analogies & the Power of Less,...

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2023/09/21

What if the best answer to a curious, generative question like, "What are all the ways we could...?" is "Do less"? UVA Engineering professor Leidy Klotz, author of Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less makes the case to consider subtraction as a viable, reliable, and all-too-often overlooked strategy in a world that is biased to always add more. And in a twist I definitely didn't see coming, Leidy takes analogous thinking to a whole new level of subtraction. "Analogies," he says, "are one of

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Ep. #203: When You Are Curious, with Veronika Darwell

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2023/09/06

As the new school year gets started, I’ve been thinking a lot about the important teachers in my life, the ones who left an indelible impression. Those special educators helped me see and, as importantly, they made me feel seen. They gave me tools with which to engage the world around me, exciting me about it — and me in it. No surprise: Slovakian educator and author Veronika Darwell caught my eye when she popped up with When You Are Curious, a children’s picture book with delightful

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Ep. #202: On Open-Earedness, with Tim McKenry

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2023/08/24

"Open-earedness" describes our willingness to explore new music. I’ve come to think of it as the auditory equivalent of open-mindedness. Good news: there's delightfully compelling evidence that choosing to be curious about music is good for our health and well-being! Tim McKenry, professor of music at Australian Catholic University, is a spirited advocate for reclaiming our tolerance of the unfamiliar and making music an intentional and expanding part of our lives. Go ahead, open those

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Ep. #201: Fearlessly Curious Conversations in...

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2023/08/08

"I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times" is as encouraging a book as I can imagine. It is a curiosity guidebook par excellence, chock full of tips and tricks and a lovely reminder that, as author Monicá Guzmán puts it, “understanding the people who confound us is always, always worth it.” Monicá Guzmán, founder of Reclaim Curiosity, is senior fellow for public practice at Braver Angels. She dedicates her days -- and, as best I can

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Ep. #200: Street Wisdom, with David Pearl

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2023/07/25

I can think of no better way to mark the rather miraculous milestone of my 200th episode than with a conversation about walking and wonder. David Pearl is an innovator in business and the arts. He's also inventor and founder of Street Wisdom, an exercise in meticulous whimsy that helps us find inspiration from strolling the streets around us. "If you’re not curious, you tend to stay in the highways, not the byways, and you tend to stay within boundaries that your brain says, 'You're safe, you're

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Ep. #199: Curiosity at Work, with Helen Chamberlin

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2023/07/12

I first got interested in curiosity as a management tool in my role as chief operating officer at NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), a national grassroots nonprofit organization. NAMI had about 80 employees and nearly 1,000 mostly volunteer-led affiliates when I was there -- and it was basically my job to know everything. But I became convinced I was better at my role if I didn’t know everything, and came at the work with curiosity instead. So I made myself a student of the subject

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Ep. #198: Curiosity & Respect with Julie Pham

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2023/06/28

Respect matters says Julie Pham, PhD. But it's also relative, subjective, and contradictory. It's complicated. Her book 7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work makes the case that respect is all about honing our curiosity practices. Inward curiosity to unearth our own feelings about respect, and outward curiosity to help us discover and deliver what others need and want. A tool kit for navigating relationships and staying focused on what matters

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Ep. #197: A Curiosity Practice Bonanza, with Jonathan...

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2023/06/07

In 28 very fast minutes we cover curiosity and creativity, the transformative power of asking questions, pivotal differences between general interest curiosity and deprivation curiosity, turning mind wandering into mind wondering, the loveliness of open mindfulness and implementation intentions ... and the possibility of an app for all of that! I reached out to Jonathan Schooler, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California Santa Barbara, about

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Ep. #196: Beyond Your Front Door, with Dina Pavlis

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2023/06/01

Killer whales, honey bees, walking dunes and hugging trees? Those are just a few of the delights awaiting those who get beyond their front doors, both literal and figurative. Dina Pavlis has lived and played on the Oregon Coast for over 20 years. She is an avid hiker, outdoor enthusiast, nature photographer and volunteer interpretive ranger with the US forest Service. She also produces and hosts Beyond Your Front Door Northwest, a coastal adventure radio show that airs weekly in the Pacific

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Ep. #195: Where Research Begins, with Tom Mullaney

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2023/05/17

Where does research begin? Tom Mullaney and Christoper Rae say it starts way before we think it does. Their book, Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) is a remarkable book -- a workbook, really. They provide a curiosity-informed, generative process for finding and really understanding the questions underlying anything you might want to learn more about. A read both rigorous and delightful - I recommend it! Tom Mullaney is a Professor of Chinese

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Ep. #194: The Curiosity Lab, with Jaison Manjaly

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2023/05/01

The Curiosity Lab at IIT Gandhinagar (India) studies factors that generate, sustain and foster curiosity. The Lab is designed as an interdisciplinary space that promotes research and outreach initiatives specifically around curiosity. The Curiosity Lab takes on systemic inequalities, popular notions of what does or doesn't support curiosity, and generally makes it their business to encourage curiosity at every turn. Jaison Manjaly is The Lab's principal investigator and chief cheerleader

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Ep. #193: Citizen Science Is for Everyone, with...

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2023/04/19

"A citizen scientist is anyone who is curious about the world and eager to help explore and understand it,” explains National Science Foundation director, Sethuraman Panchanathan. Caroline Nickerson advises SciStarter, one of the allied network of organizations promoting citizen science and April as Citizen Science Month. Her citizen science enthusiasm is infectious! Learn more about SciStarter and Citizen Science Month: https://scistarter.org We mentioned these studies in our conversation

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Ep. #192: Curiosity in Service of Ending Period...

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2023/04/04

In 2017 Eva Marie Carney read a news story that changed her life. I invited her to share how being open to new information -- and allowing that information to influence not only her thinking but also her actions -- has enabled her to change other lives as well. This is an exploration of curiosity, very much as applied. Curiosity, in this case, in service of ending period poverty. Eva Marie Carney founded The Kwek Society which provides pads, tampons, liners, and underwear, along with educational

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Ep. #191: Slow Looking & Visible Thinking, with...

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2023/03/22

Claire Bown teaches techniques to help people connect more with art. Her guide How to Look at Art (Slowly) is as rich a compendium of curiosity practices as I've ever found. Claire's professional focus is museums, but she'd be the first to tell you: the skills she shares are useful anywhere... Check out Claire's work at Thinking Museum: https://thinkingmuseum.com Theme music by Sean Balick; "Purple Light" by Marble Run, via Blue Dot Sessions.

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Ep. #190: Be Curious. Allow Your Heart & Your Mind to...

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2023/03/08

The well-deserved accolades pour in -- Newberry Medal, Coretta Scott King Award, Cyblis Award, and more -- but what caught my eye about Amina Luqman-Dawson's wonderful book Freewater was her deft deployment of curiosity. Whether as a springboard for her own writing and research, as an invitation to her readers, or the force that enables her characters' growth and literal freedom, curiosity in everywhere in this rich, evocative story of children escaping enslavement and finding their power

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Ep. #189: The Ultimate Exercise in Curiosity, with...

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2023/02/21

I had no experience with audio, radio, production, editing -- anything -- when I first undertook this show nearly 7 years ago. But I was an eager learner, improbably on the cusp of being on-air. I had big ambitions and, like many newbies, I had no earthly idea just how big they were. I wanted to open my first show with reveille from the Joint Base Myer Henderson Hall. That shouldn’t be so hard, right? Lucky for me, I teamed up with filmmaker, musician, composer, sound engineer and teacher

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Ep. #188: Curiosity Is Hailey Magee's Love Language

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2023/02/09

Just in time for Valentine's Day we consider curiosity and how we experience and express love. Hailey Magee is a certified coach, educator, and writer who helps folks worldwide set empowered boundaries and break people-pleasing patterns. She says curiosity is her love language. That seemed like a conversation we would all want to have! Check out Hailey Magee: https://www.haileymagee.com Read Hailey's original blog post "Why Curiosity Is My Love Language" Gary Chapman developed the idea of

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