The Curiosity Desk

October 12, 2026 

First, Edgar meets Chuck Loring, Jr., Director of Natural Resources for Penobscot Nation, to talk about the tribe’s securing of 11,000 acres of land in Maine.

Then, Author Kevin Galvin on his book Troubled Times: The Boston Courthouse Bombing of 1976.

After, William James College psychobiologist Kymberlee O’Brien on why it makes our brains happy to look at turning leaves.