The Ignorance Podcast
The Ignorance Podcast
Podcast Description
Each episode, Mayla will interview a researcher or scientist about what questions excite them, what questions they’re currently pondering or working on, and the broader impact of these questions. The guests’ specific job and field will not be revealed until the end of the episode, as the point is for listeners to get a picture of the guest based solely on the questions they are asking.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast explores themes around scientific inquiry, personal reflections, and the broader implications of research. Episodes focus on the guests' curiosity-driven questions, as seen in the debut episode featuring James Wilson discussing energy costs in computation and the importance of small victories in academia.
The Ignorance Podcast presents a new way to communicate science and research that emphasizes questions and curiosity. It immerses listeners in a researcher’s way of thinking: how they grew to become who they are, why they think what they think, how their research shapes them, and their vision for the world.
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Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Curtis Friedel who is asking How to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable?
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Follow this episode’s guest Curtis Friedel:
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtfriedel/
People, places, and/or citations mentioned in this episode:
KAI Foundation. (2022). KAI Manual (C. Friedel, M. Seibel, P. Wolfe, Eds., 5th ed.). KAI Foundation. https://kai.foundation/
Dr. Michael Kirton: https://kai.foundation/michael-kirton-kai/
Kirton, M. J. (2011). Adaption and innovation in the context of diversity and change. Routledge (Original work published 2003)
Dr. Priscilla Wolfe: https://kai.foundation/dr-priscilla-wolfe/
Dr. Megan Seibel: https://www.alce.vt.edu/about/faculty-staff/m-seibel/seibel-bio.html
Dr. James Anderson: https://alec.caes.uga.edu/people/faculty/james-anderson.html
Abby Cheng: https://www.alce.vt.edu/about/students/abby-cheng.html
Issa, J-P, J., (2015). Distinguishing Originality from Creativity in ADHD: An Assessment of Creative Personality, Self-Perception, and Cognitive Style among Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Adults. [Master’s Thesis, Buffalo State College]. Digital Commons at Buffalo State. https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/creativetheses/25/
Cheng, A. H. (2025). Examining Relationships Between Problem-Solving Style and the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ): Leveraging Adaption-Innovation Theory to Support Autistic Adults in the Workplace. [Master’s Thesis, Virginia Tech]. VTechWorks.https://hdl.handle.net/10919/140772
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech: https://www.cals.vt.edu/
Disagreement about methane production of cows vs. grass:
“Do cows produce more methane than rotting grass?” CBC Radio. 2019. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/mar-2-2019-the-goodness-paradox-secrets-in-poop-converting-carbon-to-coal-and-more-1.5037008/do-cows-produce-more-methane-than-rotting-grass-1.5037019
José I. Gere, Ricardo A. Bualó, Ariel L. Perini, Ricardo D. Arias, Facundo M. Ortega, Adan E. Wulff & Guillermo Berra (2021) Methane emission factors for beef cows in Argentina: effect of diet quality, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 64:2, 260-268, DOI: 10.1080/00288233.2019.1621355
Ulukardesler, A.H. Anaerobic co-digestion of grass and cow manure: kinetic and GHG calculations. Sci Rep 13, 6320 (2023).https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33169-0
2012 meeting of the Southeast Climate Consortium, held in Tifton Georgia. (seehttps://secasc.ncsu.edu/home/partners/consortium-partners/
Diamond, J. (2011). Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed: revised edition. Penguin.
“The Vikings, Greenland, and, Climate Change.”Dr. Curtis Friedel. https://kai.foundation/the-vikings-greenland-and-climate-change/
”Toward an understanding of collective intellectual humility.” Krumrei-Mancuso, Elizabeth J., et al. 2025. https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(24)00228-6
Producer & editor:
Joshua Mendel
Bluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.social
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