Curious Person Research Articles

The Curious Personality Cult of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi: At the Crossroads of Religion, Politics, and Communication Strategies and Technologies

Abstract This paper studies the construction of the personality cult of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the deceased leader of the Islamic State (is) organization that ruled large territories in Iraq and Syria in the mid to late 2010s. Examining a range of is primary sources, I argue that al-Baghdadi sought to develop a distinct personality cult by cultivating auras of holiness and mystique around his personae. While he flaunted putatively exceptional religious leadership credentials, it is al-Baghdadi’s use of communication strategies and technologies for projecting his personality cult that distinguishes his case and this study. Al-Baghdadi sought to strategically mystify himself by rarely appearing in public and largely avoiding visual self-revelation in the media messages he released. Ultimately, given his defiance of regional and international powers and his group’s notoriety, al-Baghdadi’s low visibility and self-enigmatization worked to his advantage by generating much interest about him among supporters and the global media.

Open up to Curiosity

Curiosity is a fundamental impulse which propels human beings to seek, and discover satisfying answers to life’s deep questions. Capturing small but memorable moments of personal discovery, I highlight an element of curiosity within everyone’s control: one’s choices to be open. I provide a series of personal anecdotes and analogies, to illustrate real examples of how choice, experience, and resultant curiosity are interrelated. Often, the most revealing discoveries are those which can be made during one’s routine, daily life. Here, I place emphasis on observations of the moon, previously demonstrated to help develop curiosity in students (Duckworth, 1986). With an understanding that personal experience impacts curiosity as much, if not more, than one’s natural inclinations, individuals can wield their curiosity to find interest in and appreciation for subjects that would otherwise miss their attention. Often, this perspective is best gained when shared by another curious person.

Awe, curiosity, and multicultural experience.

Despite broad consensus about multicultural experience's benefits, there is a lack of research on the antecedents to multicultural experiences. Research has indicated that awe shifts attention away from the self toward larger entities, which could include elements of other cultures. Four studies (N=2915) tested whether trait, daily, and induced awe promoted multicultural experience. Studies 1-2 (adolescents, young, middle, and older adults) showed that trait awe predicted greater multicultural identity and experience independent of other positive emotions and openness. Study 3 (students & adults in U.S. & Malaysia) demonstrated that daily awe predicted more daily multicultural experience independent of yesterday's multicultural experience. These results were explained by trait and daily curiosity. Study 4 (adults) found that induction of awe increased state multicultural identity and experience via state curious emotions and then state curious personality. We found that experiencing more awe can be a tool for enhancing the multicultural experience. The discussion focuses on the implications for future research on awe and multicultural experiences.

The Skin of Our Teeth, Everyman Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland

<i>The Skin of Our Teeth</i>, Everyman Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland

All manner of ingenuity and industry

Imagine Alastair Compston FRS retreating from the hurly burly of academic medical life to his collection of books by Thomas Willis. Over the course of four decades, Compston has accumulated the largest library of this 17th century physician: of the 103 issues and editions of Willis’ 10 distinct ‘titles’, Compston owns 85. And so, he is able to pull them off the shelf, compare them, scrutinize their construction, analyse the illustrations and then, finally, read the text. ‘This bibliography could not have been written without repeated access to individual copies, some handled many times each day away from the watchful eye of diligent librarians fretting over the rapid turning of leaves and the painstaking unfolding of large illustrations, many already torn and fragile’ (p. 4). And any curious person, in such a treasure trove, would find themselves asking: who printed these books? How were they put together and distributed? Who bought them? Who drew the illustrations? What did Willis have to say? What impact did his ideas have? This ‘bio-bibliography’ represents the summary of Compston’s forensic research into these questions, published in the 400th anniversary year of Willis’ birth.

How Much Does That Non-Physician Anesthetist Cost?

The Curious Economist| January 2022 How Much Does That Non-Physician Anesthetist Cost? Thomas R. Miller, PhD, MBA Thomas R. Miller, PhD, MBA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor January 2022, Vol. 86, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000805972.92708.ee Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas R. Miller; How Much Does That Non-Physician Anesthetist Cost?. ASA Monitor 2022; 86:1–7 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000805972.92708.ee Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: nasopharyngeal aspirate, surgical procedures, operative, medicare, hospital costs As a curious person, I often look for outliers in data because they frequently lead to interesting insights and researchable questions. Recently, I found the following curious outlier: A rural hospital conducting less than 600 surgeries per year and employing (or contracting with) a non-physician anesthetist (NPA)1 reported that the cost for this NPA exceeded one million dollars. Medicare's portion of this hospital's anesthesia-related costs was about 60%, potentially resulting in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reimbursing the hospital more than $600,000 for the anesthesia-related professional services provided to the hospital's Medicare patients. In this month's column, I examine the NPA cost data reported by rural pass-through hospitals. Qualifying hospitals can receive pass-through payments from Medicare for any services that the NPA is legally authorized to perform in the state in which the services are provided. That is, RPT hospitals receive cost-based reimbursement associated with the... You do not currently have access to this content.

Metodologia archeologii/prahistorii profesora dr. hab. Jana Żaka (1923–1990) po 30 latach. Między modernistycznymi dążeniami a postmodernistyczną rzeczywistością

January 4, 2020 was the 30th anniversary of the death of Professor Jan Żak, who died prematurely at the age of 67. His work and scientific activities were known and appreciated in various countries and during difficult times when he was professionally involved in archeology. The biography of Professor Jan Żak resulted largely from the spirit of the times in which he lived, but also from his open, curious personality. He touched the warfare, and his professional life took place in the realities of the People's Republic of Poland; he also witnessed its dramatic end. The aim of this article is not only to recall the methodological and theoretical foundations of J. Żak's scientific work, but also to try to answer the question about the contemporary methodology of archeology, practiced by the Professor's students and subsequent generations.

Alex Plank: building bridges

Autism advocate, neurodiversity champion, writer, actor, and filmmaker Alex Plank “had a harder time than most” growing up. “I was bullied a lot; I didn't know how to make friends, and I'd blame myself”, he says. There is nothing self-pitying in his tone; now in his mid-thirties, Plank is simply describing the way things were for an autistic young person growing up in Charlottesville, VA, USA, in the early 1990s. At the age of 9 years, Plank finally received a formal diagnosis of Asperger syndrome. He found out about it in a way typical of the proactive and investigative attitude that characterises his adult life. Plank has, he tells me, always been “a very curious person”. “I go through papers and read every little detail…I went through [his parents'] entire cabinet…and found the document outlining the diagnosis, which they were intending on telling me, but they were trying to just figure out the right way to say it.” Plank laughs, but it is clear that this was not an easy experience. He was at an age “when you see a diagnosis as being something wrong with you…unfortunately, that is a stigma that still exists, and it doesn't really help.” The Lancet Commission on the future of care and clinical research in autismAffecting about 78 million people worldwide, autism is a condition of global importance because of its prevalence and the degree to which it can affect individuals and families. Autism awareness has grown monumentally in the past 20 years, yet most striking is that much more could be done to improve life outcomes for the highly heterogeneous group of people with autism. Such change will depend on investments in science focused on practical clinical issues, and on social and service systems that acknowledge the potential for change and growth as well as the varied, complex needs of the autistic individuals and their families whose lives could be changed with such an effort. Full-Text PDF

Formative assessment as one of the ways to support the child in the learning process

The aim of this article is to show formative assessment as one of the ways to support first graders in guiding their learning process, an important element of which is self-regulation. It is the core around which the skills of first graders are built up. It becomes possible by directing their actions in speech and practice. Particular attention was paid to one of the elements of the formative assessment: feedback, appearing during the dialogue between the teacher and the student. I refer to John Hattie’s model (2015), describing four levels of feedback: task, process, self-regulation and “me”, and the main questions functioning at each of these levels. Levels and questions allow us to notice that feedback is not related to grading, but is information current in action, helping students to make progress on the basis of data reducing the gap between where they are and where they should be. It is important because if the student receives it on an ongoing basis, then he/she is best able to perform his/her tasks and activities. Self-regulation is the basis of education in the school class, which should be a space for its shaping. This approach of self-regulation allows us to see the first grader as an active, innovative and curious person. This requires a shift from summative grading to equipping students with a variety of self-regulated learning strategies.

Scientific attitudes of young children through literature-based and project-based learning organization

Young children’s scientific attitude is basic norms of human kind to cultivated actual learning, which has been an expected to be a curious, motivated, generous and responsible person. The study aimed to investigate scientific attitude of young children through literature-based and project-based learning organization (LPBL). The participants employed were young children, aged five to six years from Mahasarakham University Demonstration School (Elementary), Thailand. The duration of the study was nine weeks. The experiment was conducted in eight weeks, four days a week and 90 minutes per day which were done in 32 times. The research instruments were 32 LPBL learning plans, learning behavior observation forms, scientific attitude inventory, and debriefing focuses group interviews. The descriptive statistics used in the study were average and standard deviation. The results showed that the young children have scientific attitudes at high level by means of LPBL learning organization. The qualitative data supported that they express scientific attitudes in accordance with nature of learning.

Zachary Hudson

Angewandte ChemieVolume 133, Issue 37 p. 20251-20251 Introducing …Free Access Zachary Hudson Zachary Hudson First published: 29 July 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202108999AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionAdd to favorites ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract “I chose my current career path because I loved teaching! My interest in teaching came first, and I grew to enjoy research later. … The most exciting thing about my research is that it brings together so many different fields …” Find out more about Zachary Hudson in his Introducing … Profile. Zachary Hudson The author presented on this page has published his first article as a submitting corresponding author in Angewandte Chemie: “Near-Infrared Emitting Boron Difluoride Curcuminoid-Based Polymers Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence as Biological Imaging Probes”: N. R. Paisley, S. V. Halldorson, M. V. Tran, R. M. Gupta, S. Kamal, W. R. Algar, Z. M. Hudson, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, doi.org/10.1002/anie.202103965; Angew. Chem. 2021, 133, doi.org/10.1002/ange.202103965. Position: Associate Professor, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada) Homepage: hudsonlab.ca ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-8070 Education: 2004–2008 B.Sc. Queen's University, Kingston (Canada) 2008–2012 Ph.D. with Suning Wang, Queen's University 2012–2014 Postdoctoral fellow with Ian Manners, University of Bristol (UK) 2014–2015 Postdoctoral fellow with Craig Hawker, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA) Research: Luminescent materials, organic electronics, polymer chemistry, self-assembly, spectroscopy Hobbies: Skiing, hiking, running Science is fun because it allows you to make a career out of your curiosity. The biggest challenge facing scientists is convincing our political leaders of the importance of what we do. I chose my current career path because I loved teaching! My interest in teaching came first, and I grew to enjoy research later. My first experiment was the Friedel–Crafts acylation of fluorene. I didn't know I was supposed to add a stir bar, and it exploded! The most exciting thing about my research is that it brings together so many different fields, challenging me to always be learning. My long-term goal is to inspire a generation of undergraduates to believe that a sustainable future is possible. The principal aspect of my personality is that I am a curious person—I like to tackle new challenges, and work in areas that I've never explored before. The best advice I have ever been given is that different people prefer to communicate in different ways, and that understanding those differences can make one a better communicator. The most important quality of a mentor is to know when your students need leadership, and when it's time to let them lead. My most important role model was my late Ph.D. supervisor Suning Wang, because she taught me to always put students first. I advise my students to share ideas freely with one another and collaborate to solve difficult problems. My biggest inspiration is my students’ creativity. The complexity and diversity of problems they can solve is greater than anything I could do on my own. My group has fun by spelling inappropriate phrases with periodic table magnets on the whiteboard when I am away. My favorite author is Iain M. Banks. My top three films of all time are Die Hard, Die Hard 2, and Die Hard with a Vengeance. To improve my work–life balance, I spend a lot of time on hiking trails with my golden retriever. Behind the Science References 1This work was inspired by research from Adachi and co-workers, who reported a high-performance class of near-IR TADF emitters for OLEDs in 2018. We saw this molecular design, and believed it could be adapted to unlock new applications in cellular imaging. We teamed up with Russ Algar, an expert in bioanalysis, to create fluorescent nanoparticles that could label and image human cancer cells. Understanding why some of the materials showed TADF behavior while others did not was puzzling, and took some clever theoretical and spectroscopic work from Nathan Paisley to unravel. Google Scholar Volume133, Issue37September 6, 2021Pages 20251-20251 This is the German version of Angewandte Chemie. Note for articles published since 1962: Do not cite this version alone. Take me to the International Edition version with citable page numbers, DOI, and citation export. We apologize for the inconvenience. ReferencesRelatedInformation

The Five-Dimensional Curiosity Scale Revised (5DCR): Briefer subscales while separating overt and covert social curiosity

Curiosity is a fundamental human motivation that influences learning, the acquisition of knowledge, and life fulfillment. Our ability to understand the benefits (and costs) of being a curious person hinges on adequate assessment. Synthesizing decades of prior research, our goal was to improve a well-validated, multi-dimensional measure of curiosity (Kashdan et al., 2018). First, we sought to distinguish between two types of social curiosity: the overt desire to learn from other people versus covert, surreptitious interest in what other people say and do. Second, we sought to remove weaker items and reduce the length of each subscale. Using data from a survey of 483 working adults (Study 1) and 460 community adults (Study 2), we found evidence to support the pre-existing four dimensions of curiosity (Joyous Exploration, Deprivation Sensitivity, Stress Tolerance, and Thrill Seeking) along with the separation of the fifth dimension into Overt Social Curiosity and Covert Social Curiosity. Each factor of the Five-Dimensional Curiosity Scale Revised (5DCR) had substantive relations with a battery of personality (e.g., Big Five, intellectual humility) and well-being (e.g., psychological need satisfaction) measures. With greater bandwidth and predictive power, the 5DCR offers new opportunities for basic research and the evaluation of curiosity enhancing interventions.

Background. The diverse experience of artistic culture, refl ected in the established system of genres, appears in a new light from the standpoint of modernity as experts

Background. The diverse experience of artistic culture, refl ected in the established system of genres, appears in a new light from the standpoint of modernity as experts

Evidence-Based Review and Discussion Points

Evidence-Based Review and Discussion Points

Equine Personality: Association With Breed, Use, and Husbandry Factors

Temperament can be defined as innate properties of the nervous system, whereas personality includes the complex behavioral traits acquired through life. Association between personality and behavior is important for breeding, selection, and training of horses. For the first time, we evaluated if equine personality components previously identified in Japan and Europe were consistent when applied to American horses. We examined the association of personality with breed, age, sex, management, training, stereotypies, and misbehaviors. The owner directed personality survey consisted of 25 questions. An online version of the survey was created. The principal component analysis method was used to associate behavioral traits with personality components. Factor analysis with orthogonal transformation was performed on scores for personality-related questions. A total of 847 survey responses were used. Quarter Horses, “other” breed, and Thoroughbred were the most common breeds. Three principal personality components were extracted as each behavioral trait belonged to one of these three components. Arabians, Thoroughbreds, Saddlebreds, and Walking horses were the most nervous and Quarter Horses, and Paints, Appaloosas, and Drafts were the least nervous. No trained discipline was significantly associated with any personality component. There were no significant associations between stereotypies and misbehaviors and nervous or curious personality. For the first time in predominantly American horses, we have evaluated personality components and their association with breed, age, sex, training discipline, and stereotypies. We refute links between personality and trained discipline and confirm the lack of association between nervous personality and stereotypies and misbehaviors.

Online Evolution: Advantages and Challenges of Online Course Components

Abstract –"For a Copernican revolution to take place it does not matter what means are used provided this goal is achieved: a shift in what counts as centre and what counts as periphery." – Bruno Latour [1] As Michael Wesch pointed out in his 2008 talk at the University of Manitoba, "A Portal to Media Literacy," the conventional lecture hall set-up reinforces an authoritarian view of education as the passive reception of scarce and valuable bits of information. [2] This is the opposite of the exploratory, questioning discovery we would like our students to has as their learning experience. The problem of the conventional lecture hall is, as well, exacerbated in large classes of 800 or more students. However, the evolution of media, from television through to online media of today, has created opportunities, challenges and obstacles that lecturers today continue to experiment with to create relevant, interactive classes - of whatever size.&#x0D; At the same time, the numbers of students who can be reached with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) dwarfs even our largest lecture courses and there are definite advantages that can be gained through online learning - reaching people in remote areas, enabling working people to take courses, providing credible, university-level information to any curious person who wants to learn. And while so far MOOCs may not have been uniformly living up to their promise, we do have evidence that students are using them to augment their lecture experience.&#x0D; This teaching case will investigate how one large first year design/communication course has slowly incorporated online elements to shift the power dynamic from the instructor as centre of focus to the student and their learning experience as central. Begun simply, in the beginning, with audio capture of lectures, we have moved on to video lecture capture, live and recorded online help session, and supplementary videos. This last, importantly, are developed not only by the lecturers, but by interested Teaching Assistants (TA) and even students still in the course. We are, step-by-step, finding the components that will best allow students to be able to construct their own learning experience.&#x0D;

John R. Stinchcombe.

John R. Stinchcombe.

The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor. By Gerald H. Pollack, Ebner &amp; Sons Publishers, 2013; 357 Pages. Price US $29.95, ISBN 978-0-9626895-4-3

The following paragraphs are reproduced from the website of the publisher [1]. Professor Pollack takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity that provides answers so simple that any curious person can understand. In conversational prose, Pollack lays a simple foundation for understanding how changes in water’s structure underlie most energetic transitions of form and motion on earth.

How Are Curious People Viewed and How Do They Behave in Social Situations? From the Perspectives of Self, Friends, Parents, and Unacquainted Observers

People who are open and curious orient their lives around an appreciation of novelty and a strong urge to explore, discover, and grow. Researchers have recently shown that being an open, curious person is linked to healthy social outcomes. To better understand the benefits (and liabilities) of being a curious person, we used a multimethod design of social behavior to assess the perspectives of multiple informants (including self, friends, and parents) and behavior coded from direct observations in unstructured social interactions. We found an impressive degree of convergence among self, friend, and parent reports of curiosity, and observer-rated behavioral correlates of curiosity. A curious personality was linked to a wide range of adaptive behaviors, including tolerance of anxiety and uncertainty, positive emotional expressiveness, initiation of humor and playfulness, unconventional thinking, and a nondefensive, noncritical attitude. This characterization of curious people provides insights into mechanisms underlying associated healthy social outcomes.

Docteur Emily, I presume ?

DrJules Emily, health corps doctor in the French Colonial Troops, is a prominent figure in the history of tropical medicine, even though no major discovery is attributed to him, nor any invention. He was however a privileged witness to a crucial episode of the colonial history of the continent of Africa, of which left a detailed description: the Marchand mission, and its great feat, the taking of Fachoda. Beyond this famous event, J.Emily's writings also illuminate the life of a colonial doctor at that time, a dense life, made up of discoveries and unceasing activities, filled by providing medical care for military personnel as well as for the populations administered by the colony. A life "in which a curious person, exercising initiative and practicing with passion his daily medical-tropical tasks, can have a beneficial role in improving the health of the people under his responsibility", as another colonial doctor, DrAbbatucci, reported in 1927.