Mikel Herrington is a veteran of both AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps. We explore curiosity as the underpinning that brings people into civil service, reciprocal curiosity across cultural and experiential divides, humility, humor, how service allows room for listening, and why someone might carry a pecan for years...| CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS
What happens to intellectual freedom when libraries come under attack? What happens to curiosity? Librarian and director of the Department of Libraries in Arlington, VA, Diane Kresh joins me to explore the long and storied history of bad-ass librarians, book bans and book sanctuaries, the "curiosity paradox" of such bans, what makes libraries a center for community, and how curiosity is like an insatiable puppy.| CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS
With science under attack, researcher Anthony Zador joins me to make the case for its value, especially of curiosity-driven basic science.| CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS
How might choosing to be curious help us keep the conversation open, hold onto history that's being erased, and find moments for celebration, even still? Given where conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion are now, I thought it was time to have Challenging Racism executive director Monique Bryant back.| CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS
Ilya Monosov invites us to rethink our understanding of the brain -- and to wrestle with the implications of how we define "curiosity". Still, I didn't anticipate our conversation would take us to the importance neuroscience and information seeking for the fate of humanity, or to how achieving an "engineer's understanding" of the brain could be helpful for those living with mental health challenges like OCD.| CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS
