The Power of Not Knowing

ben steele: Bringing people together is at the heart of this work. npr has a new podcast called through line, which lays out historical contexts so you can better understand what's happening all around you right now. In multiple experiments, researchers have found that when we are exposed to an unexpected dose of uncertainty, or an uncertainty that is particularly threatening, our discomfort with it starts to grow and expand until we become desperate to stop the discomfort,. just end the uncertainty. The message comes from npr sponsor r e i, who supports community driven efforts to make positive change in the outdoors.