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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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2/7/2010
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
- 100207B
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how the modern science of complexity is unlocking the secrets of the "hive mind".
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Sunday
2/7/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a closer look at who’s claiming, and reclaiming, Islam.
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Sunday
1/31/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll explore our obsession with "life-lists" with film critic David Thomson and music critic Tom Moon, among others
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Sunday
1/31/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, film critic David Thomson tells us the story behind the making of “Psycho” and how Hitchcock taught America to love murder. Also, Greil Marcus introduces us to “A New Literary History of America.”
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Sunday
1/24/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how is a President supposed to assess the risk of a “dirty bomb,” or weigh the pros and cons of various energy sources, from solar power to nuclear energy? We’ll get a basic primer in physics.
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Sunday
1/24/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a scientist says the teen years exist to grow and organize our huge human brains. In this hour, the natural history of the teenager. Also, comic Eugene Mirman on growing up weird...and funny.
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Sunday
1/17/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, people who hunt and some of their reasons why.
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Sunday
1/17/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Karen Armstrong explains why modern ideas about God are so different from what our ancestors thought. (KAH-ren Armstrong)
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Sunday
1/10/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
- 100110B
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Reality.
It's not quite the Manhattan that we're familiar with. "The New York Times" is available in a "War-Free Edition" and there are rumors of an escaped tiger on the prowl in the Upper East Side. This is the setting of Jonathan Lethem's critically-acclaimed new novel, "Chronic City." In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge , Jonathan Lethem talks about the real and the unreal, as we explore the nature of reality. And we'll look at "The Simulated Universe" Argument. Is this the real life or is this just fantasy?
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Sunday
1/10/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Great Reads.
Attention all readers of fiction! This is something you really want to hear. This hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge devotes itself to some of the great reads of the last year. Colum McCann talks about his National Book Award-winning novel, and we'll hear from fellow finalist Jayne Anne Phillips. We'll also explore Barcelona, the African immigrant experience and hear about Henry the 8th's "fixer".
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Sunday
1/3/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
- 100103B
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: The Course of Time.
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Sunday
1/3/2010
12:00 PM
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- 100103A
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Change Over Time.
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Sunday
12/27/2009
1:00 PM
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After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Part Four of Future Perfect: Dreamers, Schemers, and Visonaries. Today's topic: Our Peace of Mind.
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Sunday
12/27/2009
12:00 PM
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After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the art of "alone time."
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Sunday
12/20/2009
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, pondering world economics.
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12/20/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, exploring magic. From tales of the paranormal to the mathematics behind magic tricks. A stage magician-turned-mathematician explores the mysteries of probability.
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Sunday
12/13/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, visionaries. It’s not hard to see why economics is called “the dismal science” but it does have its visionaries... like Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman... and fellow Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who’s started a new kind of bank that lends money to the very poor.
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12/13/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the fine line between love and hate... a conversation with tennis great Andre Agassi (AHN-dray AG-ah-see).
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Sunday
12/6/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, hear one man's plan to bring high-tech opportunity to poor Uraguay. Imagine a poor child in Uruguay... now imagine giving that young girl a hundred-dollar laptop computer. Imagine the educational opportunities this laptop will provide this child. Nicholas Negroponte has this very vision and he's making it a reality throughout the developing world.
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12/6/2009
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
- 091206A
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, remember Kyoto? Now it’s the Copenhagen climate-change summit. The UN’s current treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, was never ratified by the US. A conversation with Gaia (GUY-ya) theorist James Lovelock and Whole Earth Catalogue founder Stewart Brand.
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Sunday
11/29/2009
1:00 PM
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After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge: food stories.
New York chef Dan Barber faces a moral crisis in the form of a 6,700-pound boar named Boris. The Kitchen Sisters meet a Texan who wants to put a barbecue pit on the moon. And take a trip to the wilds of upper-New York State to catch live eels.
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11/29/2009
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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After noon, To the Best of Our Knowledge explores the high price we’re paying for living in “The Age of Cheap.”
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Sunday
11/22/2009
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
- 091122B
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, talk about channeling creativity - whether we play the piano, plan advertising campaigns, or keep a journal. And a visit with a rock n’ roll muse.
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11/22/2009
12:00 PM
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After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, “Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq", "Part Five: Coming Home”. Talk with Iraq War veterans about the challenges of coming home. And, what about us? Are WE ready for THEM?
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11/15/2009
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about debt and runaway capitalism... and the four men who controlled the world’s money supply back in the 1920s.
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11/15/2009
12:00 PM
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- 091115A
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Part Four of “Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq: Covering the War”.
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11/8/2009
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- 091108B
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with Nick Hornby, author of “Juliet, Naked.” Also, American music giant Ralph Stanley looks back on his life and career.
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11/8/2009
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Esprit de corps (ess-SPREE d'CORE) is the glue that holds the U.S. military together. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, "Esprit de Corps" is Part Three of "Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq".
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11/1/2009
1:00 PM
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- 091101B
The Internet is a free flow of ideas where everyone can say whatever they want. But for all its splashy graphics, it’s a font that makes the Internet looks the same. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the designer of Verdana, the Internet font. Also, the creators of Obama’s font, Gotham... The font of Hope and Change.
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11/1/2009
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with the planners of the War in Iraq. Will their preparations lead us to peace or... more war? "Architects of War" is Part Two of Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq.
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10/25/2009
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the ethics of foreign aid. Does Western aid to impoverished African nations really help? Some say it just lines the pockets of corrupt leaders and createds a culture of dependency.
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10/25/2009
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
- 091025A
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Part One of "Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq". - - April 6, 2004... a day that transformed the war in Iraq.
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10/18/2009
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
- 091018B
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore the seven-billion-dollar Christian pop culture industry, complete with Bibleman, the Caped Christian who quotes scripture while fighting villains.
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10/18/2009
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
- 091018A
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll meet a variety of people dedicated to the well-chosen word... from a woman who worked for thirty years with a grey parrot named Alex... to a linguist who’s fluent in Klingon.
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Sunday
10/11/2009
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge - Web Edition
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Contemplating the age-old dream of discovering an Earthly paradise... in search of Shangri-La.
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Sunday
10/11/2009
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge - Web Edition
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A look at the impact of Globalization.
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Sunday
10/4/2009
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
- 091004B
After one, To the Best of Our Knowledge considers what we mean by the word "craft." Does it mean a hand-made object that's almost art? Or could it be anything that's thoughtfully done to the very best of the doer's ability?
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10/4/2009
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
- 091004A
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, America’s small farm renaissance. The lure of the pastoral life and the vision of a new agrarian culture.
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