The Curiosity Desk's Edgar B. Herwick III digs up stories about Boston's neighborhoods, people, and history that he's … curious … about.

Here's a selection of his recent work:

Herwick found an MIT professor who did five spacewalks to help fix the Hubble Telescope.

He talked to another MIT researcher who thinks human life may have begun on Mars .

Last month, he explained how the Big Bang theory was < a href="http://wgbhnews.org/post/big-bang-theory-roman-catholic-creation">first proposed by a Roman Catholic priest.

He profiled the the duo behind the sound of Fenway Park .

And he got to the bottom of why that MBTA bus skipped your stop .

Curious yourself? Send Herwick your ideas .