Quick note today to spend time on finalizing more behind the scenes pieces.
The Primer was reviewed by a close friend….and I need to edit it down some.
You don’t need to be equipped to do your masters evidently…

I’ll get to that, you go be curious!

Curiously Counting: Issue 1
We’re calling the previous issue 0 - so this is #1.
1 is for hip hop’s Wu-Tang Clan - can you guess the question?

*Making, and Eating, the 1950s' Most Nauseating Jell-O Soaked Recipes - via Collector’s Weekly
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There is so much NO! in that article….the savory Jell-O salad…We made jellied eggs one time where it was hard-boiled eggs encased in gelatin….But it was the form: It was ice cream. It was chicken ice cream. And it had gelatin in it, so when it thawed, it didn’t melt.
Also: People considered ketchup spicy. 😐️ 
That article made me not hungry. Probably a first there!

Love this book, and sneaking it into issue 1, as it literally takes place in one spot. This was a graphic novel I enjoyed more at the time, and have thought of more since initially reading it than I would have ever guessed. I’ve lost count now the number of times I’ve been somewhere and then imagined the space I’m in both into the future and the past as done in Here.

Billions Of Years Go By, All In The Same 'Room' - an interview with the author Richard McGuire - via NPR
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“A dinosaur may have once snacked where you're sitting.” !!! Right!?!?
5 Reasons to Read the Time-Traveling Graphic Novel Here - via Wired

“How much there is to be done, and how little one knows.” - Christine Essenberg

Spoken like a true curious type. This story quite literally highlights the serendipitous of curiosity - and how taking action and getting curious can unlock opportunities you never would have been able to discover otherwise.

From the article:
“We know the story of Christine Essenberg only because of a serendipitous find.

While searching in an archive jammed with the papers of male scientists, host Katie Hafner came across a slim folder, called “Folder 29,” in the back of a box at the University of California, San Diego, Library’s Special Collections & Archives. There were just eight pages inside to use as a jumping-off point to flesh out a life, which raises the question: How many other unknown women in science are out there, hidden away in boxes? 

This is Christine Essenberg’s journey from researcher to teacher. It’s the first discovery of what we’re calling the Folder 29 Project, a research initiative to uncover the work of lost women of science, hidden in the archives of universities across the country.”

A Chance Discovery Uncovered the Remarkable Life of One of the First Female Oceanographers - via Scientific America 
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Seeing as this is also a first and related to the deep seas: Researchers have captured what might be the first known recording of a colossal squid living freely in its natural habitat - via Hakai Magazine

Curious Counting: The Solution - How rare is their last album?
ONE - is the number of copies of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. Very few people have even heard it - as it was the most expensive album sold going for $2m dollars. (See: The History Behind Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ - via ToneDeaf)

Now - some folks in Australia will have a chance to hear the album - but still only a 30 minute curated selection of the 31 tracks on the album! I’d take a spot though.

World's rarest album to go on display in Australia via BBC

Closing Curiosity

“I think that wonder can be an ethical gesture on our part, because it introduces a moment of pause or hesitation in our relationship with animals that reminds us that they are their own subjects with their own lives, in which we are maybe an important part … but ultimately they are here not to help us or serve us,” he said. “They’re in this world to live out their own existence.”

Do dogs dream? The answer might make you appreciate your pup even more. - via Popular Science