Hi there! It’s Doug, host of Curious State. Guess what? The show has officially launched with not one, but TWO episodes to tickle your curiosity, with a new episode coming every week.

This week’s questions we’ll explore:

• Could we have domesticated a T-Rex?

• Can we overcome our childhoods?

🦖 Could we have domesticated a T-Rex?

Ah, the T-Rex. King of the tyrant lizards. Ruler of children’s imaginations the world over. With its savagery and you-look-tasty-enough-to-eat smile…could we have domesticated it?

Dr. Richard Kissel is here to help us figure it all out. He’s the VP of Education at The DoSeum in San Antonio, Texas, and a total T-Rex fanboy.

A few of the curiosities you’ll uncover in this episode:

• The 3 questions to ask yourself before domesticating a T-Rex

• How much it would cost to feed a T-Rex over its lifetime

• What a T-Rex’s personality might have been like

• Could we have made a teacup T-Rex? *fingers crossed*

Did You Know?

T-Rex had teeth as long as bananas, which it used to tear off up to 220 pounds of flesh in a single bite. Other things that weigh around 220 pounds: 44 whole chickens, 440 iPhones, and 7.5% of the world’s largest pumpkin

🤔 Can we overcome our childhoods?

Somewhere in the rows and rows of office cubicles that make up the emotional business of our brains, there’s one employee hellbent on burning the whole place down. Her name…is childhood.

Is it possible to pry ourselves from her firey grasp? Or are we destined to live with one hand on the fire extinguisher?

Psychotherapist and bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb, offers a way to set our childhoods free: changing the stories we tell ourselves.

A few of the curiosities you’ll uncover in this episode:

• Why we’re all unreliable narrators of our life

• The long-term impacts of talking our kids out of feeling what they’re feeling

• The 3 questions to ask ourselves to help rid of negative self-talk