Biomimicry is “the conscious emulation of nature’s genius.” What might we learn by attending to nature's solutions? Sara Aly El Sayed, Director of the Biomimicry Center at Arizona State University, ha...

When I wanted to think about curiosity in communications and PR – in the professional work of finding effective ways to tell our stories to one another, under all sorts of circumstances – I knew Greg ...

What might choosing to be curious about the unthinkable offer? Davyne Dial is general manager at WPVM radio in Asheville. Hurricane Helene taught her we should all be more curious about the very thing...

Author and journalist Maggie Jackson and I dig into what happens when we shuffle the certainty deck and reinsert unsureness in AI, our interactions with it, and our own thinking.

The Yale Center for Civic Thought is dedicated to encouraging thoughtful public discourse and civically responsible intellectual life by helping students practice disagreement, curiosity, and thinking...

Certain words keep coming up in this curiosity context: exploration, innovation, creativity, trust-building, learning -- and uncertainty.And then along comes Maggie Jackson, award-winning author and j...

Research Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and his team are studying autotelic curiosity, that marvelous ability to self-generate and self-select our own learning objectives, goals or games. They design robots to l...

Virginia’s Mount Vernon Trail named 2026 Hall of Fame Trail celebrates community impact and historical significance in America.

The Big Asheville Science Salon cultivates curiosity and community through seriously cool science, presented in a seriously unserious setting. How could I not have this conversation?

How does one meaningfully mark the 250th anniversary of a declaration of independence -- of the launch of a brave and optimistic experiment in representation and democracy? Should it be about looking

What do you think of when you think of "kindergarten"? What about the prospect of being a life-long kindergartner? Join me and Lakshmi as we lean into what makes that mindset so rich and why returning...