Show overview
The Natural Curiosity Project has been publishing since 2017, and across the 9 years since has built a catalogue of 366 episodes. That works out to roughly 100 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 9 min and 22 min — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 weeks ago, with 23 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2020, with 59 episodes published.
From the publisher
I photograph, record, and write about the natural world. I see, I listen, I write. I fundamentally believe that curiosity can save the world—so I publish stories to make people curious. Ultimately, curiosity leads to discovery, discovery leads to knowledge, knowledge leads to insight, and insight leads to understanding. Please enjoy!
Latest Episodes
View all 366 episodesEpisode 332-Jurassic AI
Episode 331-Talk Dirty to Me Part 2
Episode 330-A Golden Story
Episode 329-Musings on Bernd Heinrich
Episode 328-Ages of the Anthropocene
Episode 327-Talk Dirty to Me, Part 1
Episode 326-Thoughts on Log From the Sea of Cortez
Episode 325-If You Want Something Different
Episode 324-Jennifer Comeau and Milo the Green Mussel
Episode 323-Life's Battery
I Otter be in the Water
Episode 321-A Climb to Remember
Episode 320-Food Names
Episode 319-Holly Hughes, Publisher and Much More
Episode 318-The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Episode 317-Russ Willis-AI Ethicist
Episode 316-Ocean Facts
Episode 315-Clixed-Up Miches with Stephen Morris
At various times in the past, I’ve talked about the partnership between the NCP and the Silverback Digest, an online journal published by my friend and fellow Vermonter Stephen Morris. Stephen, or Step as his friends call him, defines eclectic: gardener, traveler, writer, musician, editor, publisher—a man of many talents, vocations and avocations. Eclectic also defines the Silverback Digest. It reflects his broad spectrum of curiosity—which is probably what brought us together in the first place. Anyway, Stephen recently published a piece called “Clixed-up Michés,” a play on words of “Mixed-up Cliches.” He wrote it a few years ago. It made me laugh out-loud, so I thought I’d share it with you—the audio version.
Episode 314-Mexico’s Island of the Dolls
Mexico is rich with mysterious tradition, a culture where magic and mysticism are as present as Catholicism and the lingering Aztec voices that are woven into the wind. But nowhere is it as evident as it is in Xochimilco, especially at La Isla de las Muñecas—the Island of the Dolls.
Kyle Steele Interview
Kyle Steele Interviews Steve Shepard about His New Book, “The Sound of Life.”