Determined, she returns to casting her line, over and over again, until the arc of her queries weaves a tapestry: A Room of One’s Own. In this masterful piece, she puts two and two together: thinking requires the freedom to fish, or “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

It is the edge that straddles the divide between the more-than-human and the simply human.

We call up different canons, explore different peripheries, and take scholastic risks of different altitudes depending on our field-specific expectations. We do this because we believe in the promise of curiosity, but also the pleasure of curiosity.

Humanists with a book, a sketchpad, or a whiteboard are similarly sketch- and scribble-happy.

Committed to reducing the social inequalities and loosening the traditional disciplinary boundaries that subtend the academy, we aim to facilitate freedom for everyone’s curiosity to pursue seemingly incommensurable ideas and applications.

“The real enemy of the human race is not the fearless and irresponsible thinker, be he right or wrong,” writes educator Abraham Flexner. “The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.”

In a word, the very essence of curious movement in conceptual and physical space. What gets lost are the networks, the relations, between ideas and between people.

The two axes of epistemic to perceptual and specific to diversive together form a two-dimensional plane, with each distinct quadrant describing a wide range of exploratory behaviors in humans.

In poetry, we hear in the background the swirling connotations and corollaries, sedimented lines of comeanings, and fossilized records of concept histories; in science, we hear similar material resonances, eerie, and far away, as we listen to Nature’s lyrics.