But these appearances are self-contained curiosities standing apart from the original series.
That scientists often don't speak to the rest of us the way they would if we were standing there full of curiosity.
The mudstone unit on which Curiosity is standing has been given the name Sheepbed.
The rebels paused, cups in hand, scanning the sky above them with a sort of detached professional curiosity, like they were standing outside the Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremony, waiting for the fireworks to start.
Mr. Van Allsburg, who studied sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design in the 1970's, cast curiosities as a sculptor, like a standing bronze of the Flatiron building in New York.
It is time we look each other in the eyes with a sense of curiosity, to seek to know the person standing in front of us.
Nasa's Curiosity rover has already shown that Mars had standing water for 1.5 billion years, longer than it took for life to emerge on Earth.
At SVC, award-winning journalist Mike Donoghue '71, who recently retired from a 47-year career with the Burlington Free Press, elicited a standing ovation from the graduates when he approached the podium, spoke one word: "curiosity", and sat down again.
So curiosity compelled me to drive over, and that's how I find myself standing outside their gate.
Standing flat on golden, webbed feet, it turns its head to stare with goosey, goggle-eyed curiosity.
Standing at the southern end of Death Valley, you could easily imagine yourself at Gale Crater — Curiosity's destination on Mars.
