This week in my B&C blog: The history of curiosity, from Common-place magazine. (If I haven't trumpeted this enough before: I'm a big fan of curiosity.) Plus: the Lakota Nation Invitational basketball tournament in South Dakota, America's rising centenarian population, a scientific explanation for the parting of the Red Sea, the politics of catapults, and more ... LINK/ARCHIVE

I begin the blog with an Augustine quote; more here and here.

More on centenarians and public policy from the Brookings Review here.