The Importance of Curiosity

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Curiosity is pretty important. And in this episode of the Curiosity Podcast, Anna Starkey, creative director of top UK interactive science center We The Curious, explains why she believes curiosity will allow humanity to survive and thrive in the 21st century.

A curious person herself, Anna Starkey's areas of experience include live television production, comedy writing, classical music and live arts events, physics and neuroscience, and children's animation. Hear her discuss different types of curiosity, connections between curiosity, memory, and learning, and how to encourage a culture of curiosity.

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0:00.0	Hey Cody Gough here. Some exciting changes are coming to the Curiosity Podcast, so please stay tuned at the end of this episode for a couple of important announcements.
0:09.0	We will not be releasing a new episode next week, so if you're a regular listener then you'll want to
0:15.0	hear why and when we'll be back. Stick around. I'm curious why is curiosity so
0:20.9	important? Curiosity is super important because I think it is the thing that will allow
0:26.8	us to survive and thrive in the 21st century. Wow that's pretty lofty there.
0:31.9	Yeah I mean if you're going to do thinking, you might as well think big is what I reckon. Hi, I'm Ashley Hamer, and Cody and I are here with the award-winning
0:48.0	Curiosity.com.
0:49.6	This week we're curious about Curiosity itself. We're going to get pretty meta.
0:53.9	Every week we explore what we don't know because curiosity makes you smarter.
0:58.0	This is the Curiosity podcast.
1:00.0	Curiosity.
1:01.0	Curiosity. What is it? Where is it gone? And why does the human species need a new age of curiosity? We searched for answers and found some in the United Kingdom. Anna Starkey is the creative director of We We the Curious
1:12.5	Kingdom. Anna Starkey is the creative director of We the Curious,
1:15.7	an interactive science center, and she recently spoke about curiosity at TEDx Bristol.
1:20.7	We were able to connect over nearly 4,000 miles to help satisfy our curiosity about
1:25.9	curiosity. And technology can only do so much so please excuse the sound
1:30.0	quality if she sounds like she's you know an entire Atlantic ocean away from us.
1:35.2	Yeah I think it's the thing that accelerates our evolution as human beings and it's if you
1:40.8	reverse every cool thing every every discovery, every invention, every creative thought backwards,
1:46.0	curiosity is at the very start of it. It's kind of the big bang for innovation.
1:50.0	Anna, you just gave a TED Talk at TEDX Bristol and your TED Talk was literally about curiosity and that's, you know, not to get too meta, but you spent probably 17, 18 minutes up there explaining kind of what it is, where it's gone,
2:05.7	why does the human species need it?
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