Hosted by Lynn Borton · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 397 episodes
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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.
Lynn Borton hosts Choose to be Curious, a society show with 397 episodes published.
I know I'm relaxed when I'm barefoot in the grass. Something about the smell. The slightly damp, uneven texture under my feet. The associated breeze and bird song. It pulls me fully into the moment, settles me. So I'm pu
Shaka Mitchell says, “I have seen firsthand how sharing a song can shortcut barriers and spark curiosity about perspectives vastly different from our own…"At a time when we can use all the connective tissue we’ve got, wh
The research made headlines: the raccoon raiding your garbage can might just be solving puzzles for the fun of it. Animal behavior scientist Hannah Griebling's work focuses on raccoon cognition and human-wildlife conflic
Have you ever noticed how much a space influences how you feel? How a place can put you in a good place...or not? How might we design and inhabit spaces that make choosing curiosity easier? Leidy Klotz offers tips to nav
Ep. #326: Marking Our 10th Anniversary, with Lynn Borton by Lynn Borton
Manisha Biswas danced her way into my heart. She was the 2025 social science category winner of the Dance Your PhD contest – a prize she won for her interpretative performance of her thesis, “The Powerful Outcomes of Col
When the world feels like it’s breaking apart in a million places and even more pieces, I find myself wanting to learn from folks who are leaning into curiosity about the other, people who believe we can promote peace th
I’ve been wanting to do a show about curiosity and community engagement in urban planning for a long time. Amber Wiley's Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital is a fascina
Lady Borton has spent many years living and working in Việt Nam, providing relief service during the war and collecting stories and history ever since-- trying to make sense of the era, the place, the people -- before th
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 resear
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 Se
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. He has a lot to say to and about the people and p
I don't know about you, but sometimes the curiosity just isn't there. So I "fake it until I make it"-- I act like like I'm curious. I behave in curious ways, in hopes the feelings will follow. Wouldn't it be nice if ther
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, thi
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 au
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 i
Ep.#314: "Curiosity is the thing that drives you to figure out who you really are," with jimmy Hatch by Lynn Borton
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 placemats
How does an emergency department doctor manage the chaotic swirl of unknowns that show up at their door every day? What are they to make of the needs that emerge from the complex socioeconomic soup in which we all swim?
...there was just too much goodness here, so I made the hard choice to move the analogies and lovely final reflections to an added clip. Theme music by Sean Balick; "Town Market" by Onesuch Village, via Blue Dot Sessions
Shaka Mitchell
Nashville-based lawyer, facilitator and national leader in education reform policy · American Federation for Children
1 appearance on this show
Leidy Klotz
scientist, professor of engineering and architecture · University of Virginia
2 appearances on this show
Yvonne Marchese
author of In Full Bloom · Late Bloomer Living
1 appearance on this show
Chris Ford
manager · Sanlam AI Fund
1 appearance on this show
Dr Samuel West
Actor, Director, RSPB Ambassador, Trainspotter-turned-Birder · Museum of Failure
1 appearance on this show
John Muir Laws
naturalist, artist, scientist, educator
1 appearance on this show
Stan Lai
playwright, director, author of creativitRy
1 appearance on this show
Tyler Chisholm
Co-Founder and CEO · Clearmotive Marketing Group
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Natalie Nixon
creativity strategist, global keynote speaker, and author · Figure 8 Thinking
1 appearance on this show
Laura Zigman
author of Small World
1 appearance on this show
Kevin Kelly
Author of Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier · International Peace Museum
1 appearance on this show
John Hunter
CEO · Macquarie University
2 appearances on this show
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