Choose to be Curious
Episode #47: Transformative Power of Attention with Caetlin Benson-Allott
07 Feb 2018
This week, we choose to be curious about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Georgetown professor Caetlin Benson-Allott joins us to reflect on the "transformative power of attention" -- the idea that the more attention we pay to something, the more interesting it becomes. Case in point: she wrote a whole book about remote controls. Join us next time when Atlas Obscura's DC Chief Explorer Elliot Carter is with me to talk about curious and wondrous travel. You'll never walk around the DMV the same way again, I promise!
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