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CURIOUS MINDS - PERRY ZURN DANI S BASSETT TASCH...

An exhilarating  genre-bending exploration of curiosity’s powerful capacity to connect ideas
and people. Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity
simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating  genre-bending book  what’s left out
of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks  the weaving concepts 
the knitting of ideas  and the thatching of knowledge systems—the networks  the relations
between ideas and between people. Curiosity  say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett  is a practice of
connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge  and it connects knowers themselves 
both to the knowledge they seek and to each other. Zurn and Bassett—identical twins who write
that their book represents the thought of one mind and two bodies”—harness their respective
expertise in the humanities and the sciences to get irrepressibly curious about curiosity.
Traipsing across literatures of antiquity and medieval science  Victorian poetry and nature
essays  as well as work by writers from a variety of marginalized communities  they trace a
multitudinous curiosity. They identify three styles of curiosity—the busybody  who collects
stories  creating loose knowledge networks  the hunter  who hunts down secrets or discoveries 
creating tight networks  and the dancer  who takes leaps of creative imagination  creating
loopy ones. Investigating what happens in a curious brain  they offer an accessible account of
the network neuroscience of curiosity. And they sketch out a new kind of curiosity-centric and
inclusive education that embraces everyone’s curiosity. The book performs the very curiosity
that it describes  inviting readers to participate—to be curious with the book and not simply
about it.

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