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A dig through the MetroCosm archives... purely for my own indulgence!

Curiosity: The beating heart of science

30/7/2018

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This article was first published in the Metro Newspaper in May 2013.
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For this first 'Cosm revisited' I have chosen an unusually wordy article (most were infographic led with words acting as more of a supporting cast) – mainly because it is covers a subject that I still feel extremely passionate about: the value of curiosity for curiosity's sake.
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Humanity is an inherently curious species. From the moment of our birth, we seek to understand ourselves; the world we inhabit and all the space beyond. Curiosity defines us. The need to ask ‘what if?’, ‘why?’ and ‘how?’ liberated us from the limits of an existence driven by survival alone and allowed us to become the first species in the history of the planet to live life for life’s sake. Curiosity made us masters of our fate.

Perhaps the ultimate expression of our curiosity is science. If curiosity is raw instinct, then science is curiosity channeled, focused and refined – curiosity can survive without science, but science can’t survive without curiosity. Remove curiosity from science and you tear out the beating heart from the very thing thing that made us and sustains us.


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    Looking back

    My MetroCosm science column ran in the Metro Newspaper from 2005, until it's premature demise in 2014.

    During that time it became one of the Metro's most popular sections and it's first award winning column (garnering the Sir Arthur Clarke Award in 2013).

    In this blog I will travel back in time and pull some of those articles kicking and screaming into the present day.

    ​Please bear in mind that these are being presented as originally published and, as such, some of the information may be out of date.

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