Getting Curious Episodes:

• GETTING CURIOUS | How Does Dust Impact Earth’s Climate? with Dr. Sarah Aarons

  Feb 15, 2023 55:58

  Dust isn’t just something that accumulates between our couch cushions. Dust is ALL OVER Earth—there are 20 trillion grams of it!—and it plays a critical role in weather …

  

• GETTING CURIOUS | What’s The Steamy History Of Valentine’s Day? with Dr. Sally Holloway

  Feb 8, 2023 36:25

  Roses are red, violets are blue, we have a Valentine’s Day episode for you! This week on Getting Curious, we’re learning all about the history of Valentine’s Day, …

  

• GETTING CURIOUS | Why Are We So Obsessed With Dogs? with Dr. maythe han

  Feb 1, 2023 01:03:27

  Dogs. We snuggle up with them on the couch. We pamper them with treats and toys and songs. We even give them prime placement on our dating profiles! …

  

• GETTING CURIOUS | What Can Queer Arab American History Teach Us? with Dr. Charlotte Karem Albrecht

  Jan 25, 2023 54:09

  Starting in the late 1800s, a group of Syrian immigrants settled in America. Many of them took up peddling as a career. When American newspapers described these peddlers, …

  

• GETTING CURIOUS | Can You Even Believe It’s Our 300th Episode? with Jonathan Van Ness

  Jan 18, 2023 47:43

  If you’d told Jonathan seven years ago that they’d be celebrating 300 episodes of Getting Curious this week, they would have passed out on the salon floor. You’d …

  

• GETTING CURIOUS | Are Plant-Based Diets For Everyone? with Dr. Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann

  Jan 11, 2023 01:00:01

  We all need to eat. And we know that the choices we make with food are at once deeply personal and informed by systemic factors. As part of …

  

• GETTING CURIOUS | What’s The Sordid History Of U.S. Trash Collection? with Professors Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan

  Jan 4, 2023 55:45

  New year, Gilded Age drama! Today we might think of municipal trash collection as a mundane activity. But in the late 1800s, trash collection in the United States …

  

• GETTING CURIOUS | Do Beauty Standards Need A Glow Up? (ICYMI) with David Yi

  Dec 28, 2022 44:42

  As we wind down for the year, we’re re-releasing one more essential beauty episode from the Getting Curious archives! Jonathan and David Yi celebrate the history of gender-inclusive …

  

• GETTING CURIOUS | Hair Variation, What’s Her Story? (ICYMI) with Dr. Tina Lasisi

  Dec 21, 2022 01:12:42

  This holiday break, we’re re-releasing two gorgeous beauty episodes from the Getting Curious archives! First up, join Dr. Tina Lasisi—a biological anthropologist studying human hair—and Jonathan as they …

  

• GETTING CURIOUS | How Stunning Are Our Listeners? with Jonathan Van Ness

  Dec 14, 2022 42:25

  For our last new episode of the year, we’re turning the mic on the Getting Curious community. Jonathan is answering your questions about all things hair—including dry shampoo, …