Ep. #106: Build a Better Shoe, with Casey Kerrigan, M.D.

01/29/20 • 27 min

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"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" -- And what if you build a better shoe? OESH Shoes founder Casey Kerrigan got curious about everything wrong with women's shoes and decided to do something about it. You just never know where curiosity will take you: a data nerd unleashed! Theme music by Sean Balick. "Discovery Harbor" by Cloud Harbor at BlueDot Sessions. Join us next time for the latest in our Curiosity Studies Series: lecturer of anthropology Arjun Shankar takes on capitalist curiosity and student mental health. What happens when we stifle curiosity -- and what's that doing to our college campuses?

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Ep. #105: Dance & Embodied Curiosity with Erin Foreman-Murray

"Dance is how I practice curiosity. It is the vehicle through which I'm asking questions about the world -- and investigating questions about the world. " So says dancer, choreographer, educator and American University professor Erin Foreman-Murray in this lovely conversation about dance and embodied curiosity with C2BC intern Michela Dwyer. Theme and other music thanks to Sean Balick. Join us next time when doctor-turned-cobbler Casey Kerrigan shares her mission to build a better shoe!

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Ep. #107: Capitalist Curiosity & Student Mental Health, with Arjun Shankar

Educator and anthropologist Arjun Shankar worries that the "campus is sick". Values collide and curiosity pays the price. Does it have to be this way? The latest in our Curiosity Studies series! Theme and other music by Sean Balick. Join us next time when Arlington Magazine founder and publisher Greg Hamilton explains why he "just wanted to know stuff" -- a conversation about curiosity in life, even more than work.