5 Lubricants for The Age of Curiosity

By Becki Saltzman | May 21, 2015

It is dangerous not to see now as the urgent time to usher in the Age of Curiosity. Just ask the hilariously brilliant Amy Schumer. WTH does Amy have anything to do with curiosity? Great! You’re curious.

If you skip all these words of foreplay and jump right down to the bullet points (like we all do–so busy we are!), you’ll make the case for curiosity in that one action alone. If not, here’s your case for curiosity now:

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5 Phrases That Are Killing Curiosity

By Becki Saltzman | April 19, 2015

I knew something horrible had happened. The sound scared me before I felt anything more than a weird sensation. Immediately the intense sympathy I could never quite muster for people complaining of backaches came rushing in with the pain.

The culprit was one of those huge tractor tires in a torturous bootcamp exercise class. As per instructions, I was flipping it over and over. If I had been paid to do it, I would have refused on the principle that it was workplace endangerment. In this case, I was actually paying real money to do this.

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