An thrilling, genre-bending examination of curiosity's extraordinary potential to link ideas and people. Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity merely information seeking? According to this thrilling, genre-bending book, what's left out of the standard definition of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving thoughts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems-the networks, the interactions between ideas and between individuals. Curiosity, is a practice of connection: it binds concepts into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the information they seek and to each other.
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