curiosity
One of the problems with being "rational" in your own estimation is that you are probably only being rational about one dimension of a surprisingly complex situation
Davidtwitter.comWe all live one-of-a-kind lives with a unique set of experiences, and therefore the way we interact with the world is always somewhat different. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a vast amount of overlap, and I think it is exactly this dichotomy that makes life so wonderful. When we expose more of the web (the connections, associations, and
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The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play.
Infopunk Issue #5 – Brain Bonds: Bridging Curiosity, Creativity, Investing, and Character Patterns
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Cool project of a friend.
Howtown is a YouTube channel that explores the path from curiosity to knowledge.
In each episode, we answer a different "how do they know that?" question, diving into the research methods behind commonly held facts, public claims, and news headlines.
In John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, Berger describes the relation between what we see and what we know, more precisely arguing that what we know impacts what we see (and vice versa). Talking about the ubiquitous abundance of images and their increasingly ephemeral, insubstantial, and available meaning, he says, “If the new language of images were used
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