I’m curious. I’ve always been curious. But, it’s not just curiosity. There’s a restlessness too. There’s a need to be learning, doing, trying, adding new things to my life. I always have talk radio or NPR on. If not, then I have music playing. If not, I’m asleep. According to Myers Briggs, I’m an ENTP personality which explains a lot of it. I’ve written before about how much I love to zone out during out my long rides/runs to podcasts of This American Life or The Story on NPR. I prefer these to music on long distances b/c I can get lost in the stories and interviews and lives and I get distracted from the time or discomfort. I also dig them b/c they scratch that endless curiosity itch.
I just found a new one that I’ve been listening to for about a week … It’s ALL TIME. It’s called RadioLab out of NYC public radio. It’s like The Story but has more of a scientific bent to it. The hosts are very funny and they make topics like Sleep, Placebo Effect, Morality, etc fascinating and totally entertaining.
Some recent ideas/questions/topics they presented:
- How and why most animals sleep with one eye open (sleep 1/2 their brain at a time)
- Why Placebo’s work. Where they came from.
- Science’s wrestle with identifying a ‘soul.’
- The scientist who measured people’s weight AS THEY DIED and recorded an immediate loss of weight at moment of death. His conclusion? One’s spirit has a weighty matter.
My 'new' thing :)
