Welcome back to STEMCast: Beyond the Lab! In our most interdisciplinary episode to date, we invited Professors Perry Zurn (Department of Philosophy at the American University) and Dani Basset (Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania) to discuss their individual research careers and their most prominent topic of collaboration: curiosity. Join us as we learn everything from mathematical models of curiosity to social dilemmas that could benefit from them!

In this episode, we cover:

(01:38) Dani’s scientific curiosities

(4:15) Perry’s scientific curiosities

(7:24) How did you both start working together?

(9:31) Defining curiosity: a type of edge work?

(16:19) How does living in an information-dense age affect how we channel our curiosity?

(18:49) Differences in collect ...