Anthony J. Marolda has degrees in physics and worked for several years on R&D for particle accelerators used in nuclear physics research and nuclear weapons effects. Then he received an MBA from Harvard University and became a management consultant in corporate strategies for technology based companies. He has worked closely with the top managment teams of major firms from around the globe engaged in healthcare, defense, electronics, pharmaceuticals and automation. In recent years he has written on science and innovation topics for newspapers. The Curious Mind is a collection of fifty of those articles, collated and updated.