Welcome to Curiosity Investigations Corner!
random questions that lead me down rabbit holes, finally researched and answered
What are Curiosity Investigations?
One thought experiment that I always love conducting is "I wonder who was the first human being to think of X and why." This can be applied to anything and always leads you down amazing rabbit holes.
I'm not talking about answers to trivia questions like who invented the plane or the spoon. I'm talking about questions that make you pause and think "wait, how is that even possible?" This corner is where I finally research those questions and share what I find.
These aren't academic research papers or expert analyses. They're just me falling down rabbit holes that started with genuine curiosity and ending up with answers that I had to organize into something coherent.
What You'll Find in This Corner
Investigations into questions like:
How did we decide what zero means?
Who looked at a cactus and thought "I should eat that"?
Who first decided that 24 hours makes a day?
How did humans think of the concept of chairs?
The kind of questions that seem simple on the surface but lead to surprisingly complex and interesting answers.
These investigations satisfy the part of my brain that needs to understand how things work and why they exist. They're the questions that make you go "huh, I never thought about that" and then keep you awake researching until 3am.
Sometimes the answers are straightforward, sometimes they lead to even more questions. Either way, they're worth the dive and interesting to share.
Got a question, too?
Drop it in the comments. If it keeps me up at night too, it might become the next investigation.