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GETTING CURIOUS | How Do You Persevere, Mars Rover? with Christina Hernandez
Put on your finest loungewear and raise your favorite coffee mug because this week’s episode of Getting Curious is an EVENT! After six years of incredible work, NASA’s …
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GETTING CURIOUS | Can You Even Believe It’s Our 200th Episode?
This week on Getting Curious, we’re celebrating 200 episodes and five years of the show with a look back at some of our favorite segments on empowerment, advocacy, …
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GETTING CURIOUS | How Can We Honor Black Motherhood? with Anna Malaika Tubbs
This week on Getting Curious, we’re learning about three women who shaped the movement for civil rights in the United States—Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin—but whose …
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GETTING CURIOUS | How Can We Raise The Bar On Trans Rights? with Lui Asquith
In December 2020, the UK High Court determined that trans, non-binary, and gender diverse young people in the UK must have legal approval before they can start puberty …
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GETTING CURIOUS | How Can We Show Up For Mutual Aid? with Dean Spade
This week on Getting Curious, the writer, activist, and educator Dean Spade joins Jonathan to discuss how we can meet our neighbors’ survival needs through mutual aid, and …
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GETTING CURIOUS | How Fair is Banking? with Professor Mehrsa Baradaran
This week on Getting Curious, we’re following the money to better understand banking in America and the history of the country’s racial wealth gap. Professor Mehrsa Baradaran joins …
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GETTING CURIOUS | Who Gave Ancient Egyptians Permission To Be So Advanced? with Dr. Kathryn Howley
New year, old curiosity: this week on Getting Curious, we’re traveling back in time to ancient Egypt with Dr. Kathryn Howley. She and Jonathan discuss what life might …
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GETTING CURIOUS | How Does Figure Skating Give Us Life? with Michelle Kwan and Eliot Halverson
We’re gliding into the new year with the re-release of an episode from February 2019 with figure skating’s finest: Michelle Kwan and Eliot Halverson. Michelle and Eliot join …
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GETTING CURIOUS | What’s It Like To Make Triple Axel History? with Mirai Nagasu
This holiday break, we’re re-releasing two of our favorite episodes, with three of our favorite experts, about one of our favorite topics: figure skating. First up is an …
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GETTING CURIOUS | How Can Local Politics Be More Gender Inclusive? with Jesse Pierce and Samy Nemir Olivares
Did you know that if you want to represent your block in Brooklyn as a local elected official, you have to mark a gender designation—and the only options …
About Getting Curious Podcast
A weekly exploration of all the things Jonathan Van Ness is curious about. Come on a journey with Jonathan and experts in their respective fields as they get curious about anything and everything under the sun.
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