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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Sunday
5/19/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Art and Craft
A look at the Maker's Movement: Does our love of local things end the distinction between art and craft?
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Sunday
5/19/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK -Quiet, Please
Are you an extrovert . . . or an introvert? Recent studies suggest we undervalue introverts, to the detriment of society.
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Sunday
5/12/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - The Internet
How the Internet is changing our lives.
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Sunday
5/12/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Re-Thinking Education
Re-thinking education . . . with arguments for learning outside of school.
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Sunday
5/5/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - owning your body
Owning your body. A fashion photographer reveals beauty beyond the expected.
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Sunday
5/5/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Henry David Thoreau
The legacy of Henry David Thoreau, and why he still inspires us.
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Sunday
4/28/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Poems Old and New
In honor of Poetry Month, we have poetry old & new.
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Sunday
4/28/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Physics & The Big Questions
Can Science finally explain the age-old mystery: how can something come out of nothing? To be more specific, how could The Big Bang pop out of empty space?
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Sunday
4/21/2013
12:00 PM
130421A
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TTBOOK - Scientific Revolutions
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, what makes a scientific revolution? We'll talk with Thomas Kuhn (COON) about his landmark book on the subject.
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Sunday
4/21/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Food and Politics
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the urban farm of the future gets real. Also, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, MacArthur genius Will Allen is growing food for the inner city -- and a new politics of food and farming. And yet another thing French children do better: eat!
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Sunday
4/14/2013
12:00 PM
130414A
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TTBOOK - Into the Woods
Head into the woods with us, as we unlock the meanings hidden in leaf, twig, and soil. And to celebrate the woods in fairytale, myth, story and song.
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Sunday
4/14/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Innovative Fiction
Join us for some fictional mind expansion. New fiction doesn't always have to be like the books you've read before.
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Sunday
4/7/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Copies
What happens when your identical twin dies?
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Sunday
4/7/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Brainstorm
The neuroscience behind new research on mindfulness.
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Sunday
3/31/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Behind the Scenes
We go behind the scenes with interviews with E.O. Wilson, Amy Wallace Havens, and Kurt Elling.
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Sunday
3/31/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Sympathy for the Devil
How do we as a society deal with the redemption of our worst?
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Sunday
3/24/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - 10 Years in Iraq
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, America's ten years in Iraq from the perspective of our "boot's on the ground."
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Sunday
3/24/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Minding Mortality
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, does knowing you're going to die affect the rest of your life?
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Sunday
3/17/2013
12:00 PM
130317A
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TTBOOK - The Short Story
George Saunders on the art of the Short Story.
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Sunday
3/17/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Airports
Envisioning airports as the opportunity to dream.
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Sunday
3/10/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - We Are Connected
Forget six degrees of separation . . . on Facebook we have only 3.74 (three-point-seven-four). Exploring connections.
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Sunday
3/10/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Writing Fiction vs Non-fiction
We'll explore the slippery slope between fiction and nonfiction. Also, literary pioneer William Gibson on his discomfort with his nonfiction.
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Sunday
3/3/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Immigration
What we mean when we talk about immigration.
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Sunday
3/3/2013
1:00 PM
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After the Romance
After the romance. A defense of marriage, a commitment to the single life, a guide to keeping the heat in long-term relationships, and a few angry break-up songs.
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Sunday
2/24/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Film and Philosophy
Exploring philosophy through the lens of film.
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Sunday
2/24/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Film and Philosophy
Why isn't America inventing any more?
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Sunday
2/17/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Spring Fundraising Show
The science of mindfulness . . . brain disorders . . . and unleashing your inner creativity.
(**Download edition: A return visit to the whole question of human consciousness.)
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Sunday
2/17/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Spring Fundraising Show
Creative rituals to remember and heal. And, how writing can be a means of practicing joy . . . even in the face a cancer diagnosis.
(**Download edition: A collection of stories about transformation.)
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Sunday
2/10/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Love Lust Longing
In the name of the newly in-love, the long coupled, and the broken hearted, we're taking a little look at love.
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Sunday
2/10/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - The Writing on the Wall
The writing on the wall. When was the last time you wrote a real letter . . . with a pen . . . on paper? When was the last time you received one?
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Sunday
2/3/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Super Bowl
The Super Bowl. It's not Vince Lombardi's game . . . but the Billion Dollar Game.
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Sunday
2/3/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Stories of You
If we are only a collection of stories about ourselves . . . then . . . Where's the truth? Psychologists, neurologists, artists, mystics . . . all weigh in on: the real you.
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Sunday
1/27/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK -The A-Word
A word everybody knows and uses but doesn't want to talk about: the A-word.
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Sunday
1/27/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Amazonia
An explorer tries to protect The Arrow People, one of the last unconquered tribes of the Amazon rainforest.
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Sunday
1/20/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - The Making of a President
A portrait of President Obama as he begins his second term. And Robert Caro on L-B-J. (President Lyndon Baines Johnson)
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Sunday
1/20/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Philip K. Dick
The life and work of Philip K. Dick, the man who's been described as "one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the twentieth century."
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Sunday
1/13/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Seekers
What are you seeking in the new year? Travel writer Christopher Stewart is seeking a city in the jungle. War correspondent Laura King is seeking a place called home. And for Hmong filmmaker Dao Chang, it's her mother.
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Sunday
1/13/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - TMI?
How does information become knowledge? There's information everywhere, but do we know any more than we did twenty years ago?
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Sunday
1/6/2013
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Cracking Up
The wisdom of psychopaths. And Oliver Sacks on the power of hallucinations.
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Sunday
1/6/2013
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - "The Great American Scoundrel"
The secret appeal of the scoundrel.
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Sunday
12/30/2012
12:00 PM
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Begin, Again
A collection of personal stories about rebirth, about transformation, and about coming through hard times into a new life.
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Sunday
12/30/2012
1:00 PM
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Apocalypse, Now
Apocalyptic fiction, zombie takeovers, Mayan astronomy, and The Rapture. How many ways can you imagine the end of everything?
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Sunday
12/23/2012
12:00 PM
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Religious Belief, Secular Values
Would true separation of church and state help... or hurt... religion? A look at why secularism is not the same as atheism.
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Sunday
12/23/2012
1:00 PM
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Writing Fiction vs Non-Fiction
The slippery slope between fiction and nonfiction. Also, literary pioneer William Gibson on his discomfort with his nonfiction.
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Sunday
12/16/2012
12:00 PM
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Telling the Story
National Book Award winner Katherine Boo reports from the slums of Mumbai, the hosts of Radiolab tells science stories, and Tom Wolfe takes on Miami.
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Sunday
12/16/2012
1:00 PM
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The Other Money
What if money didn't exist? What would you do?
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Sunday
12/9/2012
12:00 PM
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Higher Consciousness
The science of mindfulness. Suppose neuroscientists map the billions of neural circuits in the human brain....are we any closer to cracking the great existential mysteries - like meaning, purpose or happiness? Scientists and spiritual thinkers are now working together to create a new science of mindfulness.
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Sunday
12/9/2012
1:00 PM
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Kicking Off the Coasts
Artists and critics speak out about creating in the "fly-over zone". Do you ever get the feeling that everyone's reading all the same books and listening to all the same music, and seeing all the same films? Maybe everybody's reading the same reviews from New York and LA.
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Sunday
12/2/2012
12:00 PM
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Extraordinary Minds
Extraordinary Minds. Certain brain disorders can lead to remarkable insights....even genius. We'll peer into the world of autistic savants and dyslexics, and contemplate our cyborg future, when our brains merge with tiny, embedded computers.
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Sunday
12/2/2012
1:00 PM
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More Wonder
When's the last time you were wonder struck? Would your life be richer for more wonder? What wonder is, how to make it, where to find it and what it does for us... we all get gently awed.
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Sunday
11/25/2012
12:00 PM
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The Creative Brain
The origins of creativity. A visit to the cave art of southern France in this fourth part of our series "Meet Your Mind: the Creative Brain."
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Sunday
11/25/2012
1:00 PM
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Networked
Steven Johnson makes the case for progress in a networked age.
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Sunday
11/18/2012
12:00 PM
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Wiring the Brain
Wiring the brain. Scientists are trying to develop a detailed map of the human brain. For some scientists, the goal isn't just to map the brain, it's to crack the mystery of consciousness.
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Sunday
11/18/2012
1:00 PM
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The 51%
Do we still need feminism when, according to one journalist, we're witnessing the decline of men and the ascendance of women? There's been a hot spotlight shining down on women this past year.
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Sunday
11/11/2012
12:00 PM
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Memory and Forgetting
In part two of our series, Meet Your Mind, we explore the art of memory, and the business of forgetting.
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Sunday
11/11/2012
1:00 PM
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Surrounded by Sound
Bernie Krause shares some of his wild soundscape recordings, many of which no longer exist in nature.
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Sunday
11/4/2012
12:00 PM
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Mind and Brain
The science of consciousness. With a hundred billion neurons and trillions of synapses, the human brain is the most complex object ever found in the universe. So far no one knows how this tangle of neurons produces . . . us.
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Sunday
11/4/2012
1:00 PM
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Presidents
The meeting grounds of compassion and medicine.
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Sunday
10/28/2012
12:00 PM
121028A
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Ghost Stories
Ghost stories.
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Sunday
10/28/2012
1:00 PM
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Horror
Exploring the philosophy of horror. Also, celebrated film director John Landis on movie monsters.
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Sunday
10/21/2012
12:00 PM
121021A
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City living
What we know about cities, and how to live well in them.
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Sunday
10/21/2012
1:00 PM
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Giving it Away
Giving It Away. When someone gives you a gift, does it leave you feeling: grateful? Uncomfortable? Indebted?
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Sunday
10/14/2012
12:00 PM
121014A
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Under Your Skin
The tattoo as art form. Do you have a tattoo? Forty percent of Americans between the ages of 30 and 40 do. In many cities there are tattoo parlors everywhere. What's most popular? Quotes from great works of literature.
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Sunday
10/14/2012
1:00 PM
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Thinking About Thinking
Why we think the way we think. Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel laureate psychologist. So he's the perfect person to give us a new way of thinking about thinking, which is exactly what he does in his new book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow."
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Sunday
10/7/2012
12:00 PM
121007A
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TTBOOK - Creativity Pledge
Stories about inspiration and art-making as we hope to inspire you to support public radio
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Sunday
10/7/2012
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Radio Stories
Some of the show's favorite interviews about public radio, including Fresh Air host Terry Gross, This American Life creator and host Ira Glass, and StoryCorp founder David Isay. Plus, naturalist, author and scriptwriter Sy Montgomery talks about remarkable octopus intelligence.
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Sunday
9/30/2012
12:00 PM
120930A
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What We Believe
What Mormons believe. The "Mormon moment" has arrived. There's the smash Broadway musical, "The Book of Mormon"; Latter-Day Saints member Stephenie Meyer's phenomenally successful "Twilight" series of books and films; and Mitt Romney's bid for the White House. But how much do we really know about the Mormon faith?
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Sunday
9/30/2012
1:00 PM
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How We Fail
How to fail. The mantra we tell ourselves most of the time in life is "don't mess up". But what if we should fail? Just fail . . . better? A conversation with comedian Marc Maron (MAIR-in) about the hit podcast that saved his career . . . and maybe his life.
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Sunday
9/23/2012
12:00 PM
120923A
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The new alone
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the new alone. Also, why living alone is the new luxury choice, and may make people more socially outgoing. And, we'll hear arguments in favor of the uncoupled.
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Sunday
9/23/2012
1:00 PM
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Making Magic
Albert Einstein said "there are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll feed your sense of the miraculous and magical with stories from writers who find magic everywhere - even in science.
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Sunday
9/16/2012
12:00 PM
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Writing Nature
We'll talk about the new nature writing and meet renowned poet Gary Snyder, in this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge.
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Sunday
9/16/2012
1:00 PM
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Rerun Culture
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, Simon Reynolds joins us to talk about his book, "Retromania." Is this retromania a death knell for our own originality and distinctiveness?
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Sunday
9/9/2012
12:00 PM
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Privacy
We explore social networks . . . and the death of privacy.
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Sunday
9/9/2012
1:00 PM
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The Language of Science Fiction
The language of Science Fiction.
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Sunday
9/2/2012
12:00 PM
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But is it science?
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore the edges of science, and hear about the hippie scientists who saved physics, or at least made it fun again, and got the CIA to pay for their research on ESP.
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Sunday
9/2/2012
1:00 PM
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Questioning Democracy
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we question the very meaning of democracy, with poets and theologians, jazz musicians, and even exiled dictators.
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Sunday
8/26/2012
12:00 PM
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Cross Talk
Wandering the unmarked maps of cultural translation, from Japanese pop culture, to fusion food, to stories from the Talmud.
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Sunday
8/26/2012
1:00 PM
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Living Democracy
Living democracy. Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad risks his life to play music in the Islamic world. Azar Nafisi risked jail time in Tehran by lead a book club that read "Lolita." Ward Cunningham created the wiki, and did it for free.
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Sunday
8/19/2012
12:00 PM
120819A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Celebrating British mathematician Alan Turing, the driving force behind modern computers.
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Sunday
8/19/2012
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Democracy and literature.
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Sunday
8/12/2012
12:00 PM
120812A
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Competition for Sport
On To the Best of Our Knowledge, some of our favorite sports interviews. With the Olympics on hand, we focus on the spirit of competition.
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Sunday
8/12/2012
1:00 PM
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Demanding Democracy
On To the Best of Our Knowledge, talking democracy with some people demanding it, even though they disagree on what they hope to accomplish with it.
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Sunday
8/5/2012
12:00 PM
120805A
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Born to Run
The story of John Carlos and the 1968 Olympics. Also the evolution of the "the runner's high."
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Sunday
8/5/2012
1:00 PM
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Information
A short history of information: from the talking drums of Africa . . . and the invention of writing . . . all the way to modern information theory. But, do we now have TOO MUCH information? We'll hear how information overload is actually re-wiring our brains.
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Sunday
7/29/2012
12:00 PM
120729A
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Memes
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the world of memes - units of culture that are copied from one brain to another. Are we all meme machines?
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Sunday
7/29/2012
1:00 PM
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Sport Women
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, our favorite interviews with women athletes.
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Sunday
7/22/2012
12:00 PM
120722A
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Cross Talk
On To the Best of Our Knowledge, Waiting for the Apocalypse.
Apocalyptic thinking is everywhere, from predictions about Christian "end times," to the 2012 Mayan prophecy about the end of the world. So what's going on?
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Sunday
7/22/2012
1:00 PM
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Marshall McLuhan
On To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore the big ideas of Marshall McLuhan, as we salute the centenary of his birth.
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Sunday
7/15/2012
12:00 PM
120715A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
My Neighbor's Story. "Good fences make good neighbors," Robert Frost writes in Mending Wall. Is he right?
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Sunday
7/15/2012
1:00 PM
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The Bee Show
A peek inside the world of bees, from the once in a lifetime mating flight of the queen bee to the California almond agri-business, where most of the bees in North America go to work. And, poetry of bees.
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Sunday
7/8/2012
12:00 PM
120708A
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The Voice
The history of the Vocoder, from World War Two . . . to hip hop. Also, the distinctive voice of legendary talk show host, Dick Cavett.
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Sunday
7/8/2012
1:00 PM
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Novel Novels
Jennifer Egan talks about her Pulitzer Prize winning book, "A Visit from the Goon Squad," as we explore the novel.
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Sunday
7/1/2012
12:00 PM
120701A
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The Creative Mind
New neuroscience takes us inside the creative mind. We'll hear a conversation about brain imaging studies of jazz musicians and hip hop artists. And a cosmologist explores the ceaseless creativity of The Universe.
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Sunday
7/1/2012
1:00 PM
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Theme Parks
We explore theme parks with Kate Russell, author of the hit novel, "Swamplandia". Also, getting high at Disney World.
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Sunday
6/24/2012
12:00 PM
120624A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
It's a discussion of the soothing sound of silence on To the Best of Our Knowledge. There's a lot to hear though, including a talk about "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking"; one man's quest for absolute silence; and John Cage's 4'33" (Four-thirty-three).
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Sunday
6/24/2012
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
If you think the influence of Shakespeare is confined to the page and the stage, think again. To the Best of Our Knowledge considers the real world influence of language, and shows what it means to burrow deep inside words.
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Sunday
6/17/2012
12:00 PM
120617A
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Poems Old and New
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we have poetry old and new. From classic lines to modern themes, poetry is alive and well.
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Sunday
6/17/2012
1:00 PM
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The Examined Life
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, does rigorous self-examination actually lead to a happy or fulfilled life? It didn't work for Rousseau and Nietzsche. This hour, the examined life, and the new science of the self.
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Sunday
6/10/2012
12:00 PM
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Food and Politics
On To the Best of Our Knowledge, the urban farm of the future gets real.
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Sunday
6/10/2012
1:00 PM
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Remembering the Civil War
On To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about soldiers' experiences on the battlefield, and their reconciliation afterwards. And the debate about the controversial legacy of abolitionist John Brown.
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Sunday
6/3/2012
12:00 PM
120603A
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Re-thinking Education
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, re-thinking education. From college programs for the incarcerated . . . to a call for the end of standardized tests.
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Sunday
6/3/2012
1:00 PM
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Physics & The Big Questions
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Physicist Lawrence Krauss says science can finally explain the age-old mystery: how can something come out of nothing? Or, to be more specific, how the Big Bang could pop out of empty space.
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Sunday
5/27/2012
12:00 PM
120527A
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Sympathy with the Devil
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how do we, as a society, deal with the redemption of our worst? A candid interview with former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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Sunday
5/27/2012
1:00 PM
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Innovative Fiction
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Innovative Fiction. We'll hear from Helen DeWitt, Mark Leyner, Ryan Boudinot, and more.
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Sunday
5/20/2012
12:00 PM
120520A
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Minding Mortality
After noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how does knowing that you're going to die affect your life? In this hour, we're minding mortality.
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Sunday
5/20/2012
1:00 PM
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Made in Russia
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore some history, stories and culture from Russia, from ballet to reality TV.
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Sunday
5/13/2012
12:00 PM
120513A
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American Invention
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why isn't America inventing anymore? America is no longer the global innovation giant it once was. Where have you gone, Thomas Edison?
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Sunday
5/13/2012
1:00 PM
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Brainpower
After one, it's To the Best of Our Knowledge, The Turing Test. It's an annual event in which the most advanced computer programs try to fool a panel of judges into mistaking them for real people. Also, real people compete to try to win the coveted "Most Human Human Award."
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Sunday
5/6/2012
12:00 PM
120506A
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Henry David Thoreau
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the legacy of American author Henry David Thoreau... and why he still inspires us.
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Sunday
5/6/2012
1:00 PM
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Airports
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, writer Alain de Botton (rhymes with bottom) tells us about the week he spent as Heathrow Airport's first writer-in-residence.
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Sunday
4/29/2012
12:00 PM
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Into the Woods
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we head Into The Woods. Learn how to read a forest. Unlock the meanings hidden in leaf and bole, twig and soil. And celebrate the woods in fairytale, myth, story and song.
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Sunday
4/29/2012
1:00 PM
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Into the Woods
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how a decision to hike helped Cheryl Strayed to work through her grief and the wreckage of her life.
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Sunday
4/22/2012
12:00 PM
120422A
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Other Worlds
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a visit to other worlds. Scientist Brian Greene looks at the physics of the multiverse, and writer Patrick Rothfuss creates a world of his own.
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Sunday
4/22/2012
1:00 PM
120422B
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Memory, Mind and the Self
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with New York Times columnist David Brooks. He says many of our public policies fail because we're not the rational decision makers we think we are. Also, rising jazz star Vijay Iyer on the neuroscience of music.
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Sunday
4/15/2012
12:00 PM
120415A
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Brainstorm
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about the neuroscience of emotion with Richie Davidson. It's now one of the hottest topics in science, and Davidson is famous for his pioneering research on mindfulness.
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Sunday
4/15/2012
1:00 PM
120415B
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Mother Issues
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the tricky topic of motherhood. Linda Gray Sexton remembers her mother, the troubled poet Anne Sexton. Jeannette Walls talks about growing up homeless. And Ayelet Waldman explains how being a bad mother, isn't really all that bad.
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Sunday
4/8/2012
12:00 PM
120408A
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Too Much Information?
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how does information become knowledge? There's information everywhere... but do we know any more than we did twenty years ago?
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Sunday
4/8/2012
1:00 PM
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Creative Partnerships
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore creative partnerships, including two of the most influential partners of all time - John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
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Sunday
4/1/2012
12:00 PM
120401A
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Imagination
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll meet the man behind "Uncreative Writing," a class in which students are penalized for showing originality, but rewarded for plagiarism, plundering and stealing.
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Sunday
4/1/2012
1:00 PM
120401B
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Pushing the Limits in Film
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, pushing the limits in film with filmaker John Waters. Plus, a conversation with the infamous Winnebago Man . . . the Angriest Man on YouTube.
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Sunday
3/25/2012
12:00 PM
120325A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, guests include poet Molly Peacock, original Beatles drummer Pete Best, and poet-geneticist Scott Topper.
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Sunday
3/25/2012
1:00 PM
120325B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, guests include photographer William Christenberry, filmmaker Kyle Haussmann Stokes, and writer/educator Parker Palmer.
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Sunday
3/18/2012
12:00 PM
120318A
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Atheists, Believers & The Secular
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, what atheists can learn from religion, and why novelist Anne Rice left the Catholic church.
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Sunday
3/18/2012
1:00 PM
120318B
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Animals and Us
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why it's so hard to think straight about animals.
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Sunday
3/11/2012
12:00 PM
120311A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, are you a scalawag? a rapscallion? a varlet? Join us as we talk "roguish" with an opposition researcher, and the founder of a cult. We'll even go back to The Civil War and find out about the greatest American scoundrel ever.
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Sunday
3/11/2012
1:00 PM
120311B
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Kicking Off the Coasts
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, artists speak out about making it in America's heartland, and getting past the gate-keepers on the coasts. What's it like to be creative in the "fly-over" zone?
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Sunday
3/4/2012
12:00 PM
120304A
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Philip K. Dick
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll examine the life and work of the legendary science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Described as "one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the twentieth century," we commemorate the 30th anniversary of his death.
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Sunday
3/4/2012
1:00 PM
120304B
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Re-thinking Native Culture
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, it's time to hit the reset button and re-think everything we know about Native American culture.
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Sunday
2/26/2012
12:00 PM
120226A
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Seeing and Perceiving
Oliver Sacks can't recognize other people's faces, not even his own when he's looking in the mirror. Sacks is also a neurologist who's fascinated by brain disorders. We'll talk with Sacks and with the painter Chuck Close, who also suffers from face-blindness. After twelve on To the Best of Our knowledge, the many ways of seeing the world.
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Sunday
2/26/2012
1:00 PM
120226B
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Graphic Art Grows Up
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how graphic art grew up...with Will Eisner's biographer, Jules Feiffer, Dennis Kitchen, and Robert Crumb.
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Sunday
2/19/2012
12:00 PM
120219A
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The Story of You
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, if we are only a collection of stories about ourselves, then, where's the truth? Psychologists, neurologists, artists, and mystics all weigh-in.
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Sunday
2/19/2012
1:00 PM
120219B
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How to Disappear Completely
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how to disappear completely. You too can vanish without a trace . . . join us for a crash course. And, the founder of the Federal Witness Protection Program on how the professionals do it.
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Sunday
2/12/2012
12:00 PM
120212A
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Astrobiology
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why astronomers believe that one day soon . . . within a decade . . . you'll wake up to the news of life . . . on another planet.
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Sunday
2/12/2012
1:00 PM
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Writing Fiction vs Non-Fiction
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we explore the slippery slope between fiction and nonfiction. Also, literary pioneer William Gibson on his discomfort with his nonfiction.
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Sunday
2/5/2012
12:00 PM
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The Other Money
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, what if there wasn't any money? What would you do?
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Sunday
2/5/2012
1:00 PM
120205B
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ProcrastiNation
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we explore procrastination.
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Sunday
1/29/2012
12:00 PM
120129A
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Are Humans Innately Good?
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, are humans innately good? Or, are we natural born sinners who have to fight, tooth and nail, to conquer our inherent tendencies towards selfishness, destruction and war?
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Sunday
1/29/2012
1:00 PM
120129B
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In Pain
Imagine living in constant, excruciating pain... and choosing prayer over pain medication. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how one man prays the pain away. Meanwhile, others inflict pain on themselves in a bid to find God.
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Sunday
1/22/2012
12:00 PM
120122A
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Compassion and Medicine
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the meeting grounds of compassion and medicine. James Orbinski never knew how far his innate compassion would take him. After joining the International aid group Doctors Without Borders, he found himself practicing medicine in some of the most horrifying conditions imaginable.
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Sunday
1/22/2012
1:00 PM
120122B
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Singing the Revolution
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, singing the revolution. "We Shall Overcome" has become the go-to song to summon courage and hope, and a spark to ignite or sustain a revolution.
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Sunday
1/15/2012
12:00 PM
120115A
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Thinking About Thinking
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman (KAH-nuh-muhn) tells us about thinking fast . . . and slow.
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Sunday
1/15/2012
1:00 PM
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Public Intellectuals
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, what is the responsibility of intellectuals? We'll hear from Noam Chomsky (NO-um CHOM-skee) and others, with some thoughts from the late Christopher Hitchens.
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Sunday
1/8/2012
12:00 PM
120108A
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Selling Out
Did you trade the ideals of your youth for the comforts of middle-age? Are you a sell out? After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with two people who've vowed never to sell-out. Ralph Nader. And Congressman Joe Walsh, who says the Tea Party has to be the party of no compromise.
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Sunday
1/8/2012
1:00 PM
120108B
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What's Hot and What's Not
Predicting the future is a tough business, but a lot of people make a living trying to do just that. From music to markets to twitter... we're peering into our cacophonous culture in a bid to see what's coming. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the nature of trends.
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Sunday
1/1/2012
12:00 PM
120101A
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Amazonia
"The Arrow People," one of the last unconquered tribes in the Amazon, have had virtually no contact with the modern world. Now, they're fighting for survival. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll travel with an explorer who's trying to protect the Arrow People.
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Sunday
1/1/2012
1:00 PM
120101B
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Sequels and Spin-offs
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore our fascination with sequels and spin-offs. Also, a look at fan fiction as literature. And promos, spoilers, and other media paratexts.
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Sunday
12/25/2011
12:00 PM
111225A
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Einstein, God and the Universe
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, what exactly did Einstein conclude about religion? We'll hear from leading scientists and religious scholars, including Richard Dawkins, Steven Weinberg and Elaine Pagels, as well as Einstein biographer Walter Isaacson.
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Sunday
12/25/2011
1:00 PM
111225B
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Family Life Decisions
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, families. We'll hear NPR's Scott Simon rhapsodize about his two adopted daughters from China. And we'll learn how it takes a whole family to fight one member's anorexia.
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Sunday
12/18/2011
12:00 PM
111218A
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Decline of the Middle Class
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the decline of the middle class. How rising levels of income inequality shattered middle class dreams. And, how to get them back.
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Sunday
12/18/2011
1:00 PM
111218B
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Going Ape
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, going ape. Stories about our closest living non human relatives.
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Sunday
12/11/2011
12:00 PM
111211A
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Literature of Memory
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about the literature of memory. Joining us are Julian Barnes, and another acclaimed novelist, Michael Ondaatje (own-daht-jay).
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Sunday
12/11/2011
1:00 PM
111211B
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Paranormal Pop Culture
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, "Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal." We'll explore "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick."
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Sunday
12/4/2011
12:00 PM
111204A
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Deep Blue Sea
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we explore the mysteries of the deep. We'll hear about the oceans' oddest creatures . . . and why they matter.
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Sunday
12/4/2011
1:00 PM
111204B
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After the Violence
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, cognitive scientist Steve Pinker boldly says humans aren't getting more violent, in fact, we may be living in the most peaceful time in human history.
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Sunday
11/27/2011
12:00 PM
111127A
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Questioning Democracy
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Whose democracy is it? A fair question? Or an unpatriotic one? In Part Four of our special series Democracy: A Short History of a Big Idea, we question the very meaning of democracy, with poets and theologians, jazz musicians, and even exiled dictators. It's Questioning Democracy in this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Sunday
11/27/2011
1:00 PM
111127B
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Giving It Away
"Gifts make slaves, like whips make dogs" is a saying from Greenland's Inuit culture. When someone gives you a gift, does it leave you feeling... grateful? Uncomfortable? Indebted? Giving It Away...after one on To the Best of Our Knowledge.
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Sunday
11/20/2011
12:00 PM
111120A
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Living Democracy
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad risks his life to play music in the Islamic world. Azar Nafisi risked jail time in Tehran by leading a book club that read "Lolita." Ward Cunningham created the wiki, and did it for free. In Part Three of our special series Democracy: A Short History of a Big Idea, it's Living Democracy in this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Sunday
11/20/2011
1:00 PM
111120B
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The Uses of Enchantment
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, writers Neil Gaiman, A.S. Byatt and Salman Rushdie tell us why we need magic.
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Sunday
11/13/2011
12:00 PM
111113A
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Writing Democracy
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, in Part Two of our special series, "Democracy: A Short History of a Big Idea," we talk democracy and literature. Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. V.S. Naipul won in 2001. But they're something else - they're political.
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Sunday
11/13/2011
1:00 PM
111113B
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Why Do We Love Sad Songs?
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore our love of sad music. We'll look into the effects the minor third has on our brains, and we'll delve into the saddest music ever written: Barber's Adagio for Strings.
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Sunday
11/6/2011
12:00 PM
111106A
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Demanding Democracy
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we talk democracy with some of the people who are demanding it. It's part one of our series "Democracy: A Short History of a Big Idea."
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Sunday
11/6/2011
1:00 PM
111106B
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Nature Writing
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about the new Nature writing. And we meet renowned poet Gary Snyder.
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Sunday
10/30/2011
12:00 PM
111030A
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Horror
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore the philosophy of horror. Also, the celebrated film director John Landis on movie monsters.
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Sunday
10/30/2011
1:00 PM
111030B
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Red Tooth, Red Claw
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we come face to face with nature in full force.
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Sunday
10/23/2011
12:00 PM
111023A
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How to Fail
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how to fail. We'll talk with comedian Marc Maron (MAIR-in) about the hit podcast that saved his career and maybe his life.
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Sunday
10/23/2011
1:00 PM
111023B
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Tranforming Traditions
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how some traditions endure, and other's transform, in Asia's changing landscape.
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Sunday
10/16/2011
12:00 PM
111016A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Writing War Fiction.
Sometimes the truth about war isn't a headline in the newspaper or an in-depth report on the radio. Sometimes, it takes fiction to tell the truth. A look at this year's best new novels about war.
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Sunday
10/16/2011
1:00 PM
111016B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, You Are What You Read.
Concerned that your family never spends time together as a family? Sure, everyone is connected by technology. But are you connected to each other?
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Sunday
10/9/2011
12:00 PM
111009A
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Upcycling
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we explore the new world of upcycling, from the scavenger life of a do-it-yourselfer . . . to the second life of garbage.
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Sunday
10/9/2011
1:00 PM
111009B
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The Universe
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll tackle the big questions about the universe. When and how did the universe begin? Why is there something rather than nothing?
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Sunday
10/2/2011
12:00 PM
111002A
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Rerun Culture
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Rerun Culture. Tribute albums, reunion tours and mash-ups. If pop culture's all about the new, why is there so much wallowing in our immediate past? Is this retromania a death knell for our own originality and distinctiveness?
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Sunday
10/2/2011
1:00 PM
111002B
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But is it Science?
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Is It Science? We'll explore the edges of science, and hear about the hippie scientists who saved physics, or at least made it fun again, and got the C-I-A to pay for their research on E-S-P.
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Sunday
9/25/2011
12:00 PM
110925A
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The Language of Science of Fiction
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, The Language of Science Fiction. China Mieville's (Me AY vill's) new novel, Embassytown, features sentient beings famous for their unique language and a woman who's a living simile. Ursula K. LeGuin says that Embassytown is "a fully achieved work of art."
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Sunday
9/25/2011
1:00 PM
110925B
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Cultural Commons
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Cultural Commons. Is there such a thing as true, original creativity? Or are we just seeing further by standing on the shoulders of giants?, to paraphrase Sir Isaac Newton. Steven Johnson will tell us about the natural history of innovation. And Lewis Hyde offers a way to look beyond today's narrow debates over cultural ownership.
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Sunday
9/18/2011
12:00 PM
110918A
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Integration Stories
In the four decades since the Civil Rights movement, few would say African Americans are now fully integrated or assimilated. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Integration Stories. African American writers talk about race, and how black history continues to shape our racial conversation today.
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Sunday
9/18/2011
1:00 PM
110918B
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Mysteries of Childhood
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Mysteries of Childhood. Alex Rider, Nancy Drew, The Cat in the Hat, and Harold and the Purple Crayon are some of the most imaginative and mysterious stories around. But it turns out the authors sometimes have their own, personal mysteries to share. A conversation with author Anthony Horowitz, creator of the Alex Rider series, about his complicated past.
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Sunday
9/11/2011
12:00 PM
110911A
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Inside the Mind of a Human Bomb
After twelve- noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, "Inside the Mind of a Human Bomb"
Ten years after the War on Terror began, militant Islamic teenagers are still blowing themselves up in crowded streets. What makes someone willing to become a human bomb? A look at how religious radicalization works, and new techniques for reprogramming jihadist children.
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Sunday
9/4/2011
12:00 PM
110904A
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Information
We've all heard we live in "the information age," but what does this mean? After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll give you a short history of Information . . . from talking drums onward. And we'll hear how information overload is actually re-wiring our brains.
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Sunday
9/4/2011
1:00 PM
110904B
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Telling the Difficult Story
She was kidnaped by Marxist rebels in Columbia while in the midst of her presidential campaign. During six and a half years of captivity her greatest fear was not death. It was losing her humanity. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Ingrid Betancourt on faith, hope, and love.
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Sunday
8/28/2011
12:00 PM
110828A
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Bees
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Bees. A peek inside their world, from the once-in-a-lifetime mating flight of the queen bee, to the California almond agri-business, where most of the bees in North America go to work. And, the poetry of bees.
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Sunday
8/28/2011
1:00 PM
110828B
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Can Science Be Sacred?
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, "Science and the Search for Meaning: Five Questions - Part 5: Can Science be Sacred?" The search for a science-based spirituality.
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Sunday
8/21/2011
12:00 PM
110821A
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Theme Parks
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Theme Parks. Also, getting high at Disney World.
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Sunday
8/21/2011
1:00 PM
110821B
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Can Islam and Science Coexist?
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, can Islam and Science Coexist? A look at the challenges facing Muslim scientists.
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Sunday
8/14/2011
12:00 PM
110814A
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The Creative Mind
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, The Creative Mind. What goes on inside the mind of a painter, or a musician, or a poet? What sparks creativity? New neuroscience takes us inside the creative mind.
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Sunday
8/14/2011
1:00 PM
110814B
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Does the Soul Still Matter?
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Does the Soul Still Matter? We'll explore the question with scientists and philosophers.
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Sunday
8/7/2011
12:00 PM
110807A
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Waiting for the Apocalypse
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Waiting for the Apocalypse. A conversation with renowned religious historian Elaine Pagels about the lasting impact of the Book of Revelation. And, a look into the real history of the Mayan calendar. Also, a sobering look at the threat of nuclear war.
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Sunday
8/7/2011
1:00 PM
110807B
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What Does Evolution Want?
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: What Does Evolution Want? A conversation with maverick paleontologist Simon Conway Morris.
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Sunday
7/31/2011
12:00 PM
110731A
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Trickster
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Trickster mythology. Lewis Hyde talks about his book, "Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art." This classic text introduces us to the playful and disruptive side of imagination embodied in trickster mythology.
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Sunday
7/31/2011
1:00 PM
110731B
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What is Life
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: What is Life? Scientists can now explain virtually every stage of the evolutionary process. But there's a basic question that still mystifies even the best scientists: How did life first begin on Earth?
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Sunday
7/24/2011
12:00 PM
110724A
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Marshall McLuhan at 100
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Marshall McLuhan at 100. Marshall McLuhan's big ideas and the centenary of his birth.
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Sunday
7/24/2011
1:00 PM
110724B
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The Soundtrack to War and Peace
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, The soundtrack to War and Peace. Can music change the world? the soundtrack to war and peace. From Benin to Andalusia. From East LA to Sierra Leona. And, the politics behind Beethoven's 9th.
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Sunday
7/17/2011
12:00 PM
110717A
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On Running
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, new research is challenging some of our most trusted advice about running and exercise. Re-thinking running. Also, the barefoot revolution.
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Sunday
7/17/2011
1:00 PM
110717B
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Superheroes
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, superheroes. Wonder Woman's controversial new costume, as well as the actual physics of superpowers. And, "The 99" - an Islamic comic book in which each superhero reflects one of the 99 names of Allah.
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Sunday
7/10/2011
12:00 PM
110710A
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Here There Be Monsters
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Here There Be Monsters. We'll meet author Justin Cronin, as we explore monsters. Also, Cartoonist and author Lynda Barry reminisces about her favorite monsters.
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Sunday
7/10/2011
1:00 PM
110710B
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Writers on Writing
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, writers on writing, with Jane Hamilton & Nick Cave.
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Sunday
7/3/2011
12:00 PM
110703A
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Living the Language
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Living the Language. If you think the influence of Shakespeare is confined to the page, and the stage . . . think again.
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Sunday
7/3/2011
1:00 PM
110703B
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Three Presidents and a Queen
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Three Presidents and a Queen. It's about John & Abigail Adams, George Washington & Teddy. Roosevelt. Also, we'll get the low down on Cleopatra from biographer Stacy Schiff.
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Sunday
6/26/2011
12:00 PM
110626A
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Poetry Out Loud
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, poetry out loud. Rae Armantrout reads her poems, Natalie Merchant sings our favorite classic poems, and Bobby McFerrin on the human voice as poetry.
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Sunday
6/26/2011
1:00 PM
110626B
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It's a Wonderful Afterlife
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore our enduring fascination with the afterlife by talking with Lisa Miller, the author of "Heaven." Also, Carlos Eire on a very brief history of eternity.
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Sunday
6/19/2011
12:00 PM
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Anxiety
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, award-winning journalist Patricia Pearson talks about her personal struggles with anxiety.
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Sunday
6/19/2011
1:00 PM
110619B
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Finding Home
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Finding Home. The psychology of our attachment to the places we love. Why we suffer when forests are cut down, air is polluted, rivers and oceans fouled - the link between the environment and human happiness.
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Sunday
6/12/2011
12:00 PM
110612A
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Novel Novels
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, novel Novels. Jennifer Egan talks about her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “A Visit from the Goon Squad”.
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Sunday
6/12/2011
1:00 PM
110612B
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Losing Religion
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Losing Religion. A conversation with best-selling author Rhoda Janzen about growing up Mennonite. And Philip Pullman on being an atheist . . . and religious . . . all at the same time.
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Sunday
6/5/2011
12:00 PM
110605A
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Psychedelics
After noon, To the Best of Our Knowledge takes you to the cutting-edge of psychedelic research.
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Sunday
6/5/2011
1:00 PM
110605B
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Dancing About Architecture: Arts Criticism
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Dancing About Architecture: Arts Criticism. A conversation with music critic Robert Parker's daughter about what made him great.
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Sunday
5/29/2011
12:00 PM
110529A
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TTBOOK - The Examined Life
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we hear about the idea of the "examined life," and explore the new Science of the Self.
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Sunday
5/29/2011
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Scandinavian Death Trip
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we meet the superstars of Scandinavian crime fiction.
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Sunday
5/22/2011
12:00 PM
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America's Right Turn
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, America’s Right Turn. Find out why the Founding Fathers are hot property in contemporary politics, and look back at the Reagan legacy.
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Sunday
5/22/2011
1:00 PM
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Saying the World
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Saying the World. Try out new words from the online world, with a New York Times language blogger - words like YakkaWow and Suicide Cuisine. Also, the rise of a new world language called Globish.
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Sunday
5/15/2011
12:00 PM
110515A
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The Voice
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore the history of the vo-coder, from World War Two . . . to hip-hop. Also, the distinctive voice of legendary talk-show host, Dick Cavett.
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Sunday
5/15/2011
1:00 PM
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Sacred Nature
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Sacred Nature, living small and liking it . . . an argument in favor of the radically local life.
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Sunday
5/8/2011
12:00 PM
110508A
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Protest 2.0
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Protest 2.0 (two-point-oh), how open-source protesting is changing the world.
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Sunday
5/8/2011
1:00 PM
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The Civil War
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, remembering The Civil War. We'll talk about soldiers' experiences on the battlefield . . . and their reconciliation afterwards. We'll debate the controversial legacy of the abolitionist, John Brown. And we'll reflect on why The Civil War still has a living . . . and highly contested . . . history . . . even today.
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Sunday
5/1/2011
12:00 PM
110501A
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Other Worlds
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Other Worlds. Scientist Brian Greene looks at the physics of the "multiverse," and writer Patrick Rothfuss creates a world of his own.
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Sunday
5/1/2011
1:00 PM
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Extreme Healing
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Extreme Healing. We’ll meet one man who took his autistic son to Mongolia for shamanic healing. And, a former junkie finds a cure with help from the monkey god Hanuman (HAHN-oo-mahn).
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Sunday
4/24/2011
12:00 PM
110424A
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Portrait of the Artist
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Portrait of the Artist.
To the Best of Out Knowledge speaks with Patti Smith, and hears from acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan about his views on fiction and today's literary world.
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Sunday
4/24/2011
1:00 PM
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Stay Positive
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Stay Positive.
Michael Gates Gill reminds us we have a lot to be grateful for, and Suzan Colon shares recipes of the food that got her family through hard times.
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Sunday
4/17/2011
12:00 PM
110417A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, "Made in Russia". We’ll explore some history, stories and culture from Russia . . . from ballet . . . to reality TV.
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Sunday
4/17/2011
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Writers on Writing. Biographer Blake Bailey introduces us to the life and work of Richard Yates. Also, Jonathan Lethem on the legendary science-fiction author, Philip K. Dick.
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Sunday
4/10/2011
12:00 PM
110410A
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Brainpower. After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why we expect more from technology and less from each other.
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Sunday
4/10/2011
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Polar Stories. After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, stories from the lands of snow and ice. What do we stand to lose when the world’s ice melts?
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Sunday
4/3/2011
12:00 PM
110403A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Memory, Mind and the Self. After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, David Brooks says we’re not actually the rational decision makers we think we are.
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Sunday
4/3/2011
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
When We Meet. After one, To the Best of Our Knowledge talks with Muslims and Westerners who are redefining our relationship.
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Sunday
3/27/2011
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the tricky topic of motherhood.
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Sunday
3/27/2011
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, To the Best of Our Knowledge explores creative partnerships.
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Sunday
3/20/2011
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, is Austerity a dangerous idea? Join us as we question Austerity, and talk about other options.
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Sunday
3/20/2011
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, pushing the limits in film with John Waters. Also, the infamous Winnebago Man - the Angriest Man on YouTube.
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Sunday
3/13/2011
12:00 PM
110313A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why the belated publication of his legendary "Red Book" will change the way we think of Carl Jung. (YOUNG)
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Sunday
3/13/2011
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, cyber-warfare and the rise of the American surveillance state. And, how to protect our electronic freedom.
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Sunday
3/6/2011
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why everything you know about Native American Culture – is wrong.
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Sunday
3/6/2011
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why it’s so hard to think straight about animals.
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Sunday
2/27/2011
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, it's To the Best of Our Knowledge. This time, Aging: Dying Young As Late As Possible
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Sunday
2/27/2011
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, it's To the Best of Our Knowledge. This hour, how Proust made discoveries about the human brain long before science did, as we explore the cultures of arts and science.
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Sunday
2/20/2011
12:00 PM
110220A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why is it that people love experimental art but hate experimental music?
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Sunday
2/20/2011
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, 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
2/13/2011
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Gaming.
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Sunday
2/13/2011
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: How to disappear completely.
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Sunday
2/6/2011
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, neurologist Oliver Sacks and painter Chuck Close show us the many ways of seeing the world.
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Sunday
2/6/2011
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, film critic David Thomson tells the story behind the making of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, “Psycho” and how the director taught America to love murder.
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Sunday
1/30/2011
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how graphic art grew up. . .with Will Eisner’s biographer, Jules Feiffer, Dennis Kitchen, and Robert Crumb.
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Sunday
1/30/2011
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, best-selling author Mary Karr talks about her journey from addiction to awe.
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Sunday
1/23/2011
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll explore. . . procrastination.
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Sunday
1/23/2011
1:00 PM
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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
1/16/2011
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, are we good... or... not? Are humans innately good? Or, are we natural born sinners who have to fight to conquer our inherent tendencies towards selfishness, destruction and war?
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Sunday
1/16/2011
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
“We Shall Overcome” has become the "go-to" song to summon courage and hope, and a spark to ignite or sustain a revolution. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, singing the revolution.
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Sunday
1/9/2011
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, get the low-down on Cleopatra from biographer Stacy Schiff.
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Sunday
1/9/2011
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, going ape. Stories about our closest living non-human relatives.
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Sunday
1/2/2011
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge explores our fascination with sequels and spin-offs. Also, a look at fan fiction as literature. Plus promos, spoilers, and other media paratexts.
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Sunday
1/2/2011
1:00 PM
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Ayn (rhymes with eye) Rand didn’t know how to make small talk. She believed capitalism was the best social system ever invented, and now she's inspiring a new generation of anti-government rabble-rousers. To the Best of Our Knowledge talks about the Ayn Rand revival, after one.
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Sunday
12/26/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about Change-over-time. That is, how Change is really a lifelong project. A former monk talks about transforming his life spiritually through meditation.
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Sunday
12/26/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we consider the universal course of time... from the beginning to the end... and back again. A cosmologist discusses creation, and ponders when the universe became self-aware.
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Sunday
12/19/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, “Science and the Search for Meaning: Five Questions - Part Five: Can Science be Sacred?” What if you don’t believe in God, and the thought of church makes you queasy? Can you still experience the sacred? The search for a science-based spirituality.
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Sunday
12/19/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Every day we are subjected to a relentless surge of information and facts, and the experience tends to shut down our sense of wonder. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how can we restore our sense of delight and mystery? Writers Neil Gaiman, A.S. Byatt and Salman Rushdie tell us why we need magic.
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Sunday
12/12/2010
12:00 PM
101212A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the challenges facing Muslim scientists. Islamic culture was once the center of the scientific world. Today the Islamic world lags far behind the West in science and technology. What happened?
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Sunday
12/12/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, exploring our love of sad music. A look into the effects the minor-third has on our brains, and we’ll delve into the saddest music ever written: Barber’s Adagio for Strings.
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Sunday
12/5/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Does the soul still matter? We’ve been told the soul is what makes each of us unique. But many scientists now say the soul is just an outdated myth, an idea that can be explained away by new insights from neuroscience and evolutionary biology.
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Sunday
12/5/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll hear NPR’s Scott Simon rhapsodize about his two adopted daughters from China. And we’ll learn how it takes a whole family to fight one member’s anorexia.
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Sunday
11/28/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge talks with maverick paleontologist Simon Conway Morris, to explore the question “What does evolution want?”
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Sunday
11/28/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge explores the high price we’re paying for living in “The Age of Cheap.” Also, “Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays.”
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Sunday
11/21/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, To the Best of Our Knowledge speaks with with James Lovelock about his Gaia theory, to explore the question, "What is Life?" It’s Part One of a new series from To the Best of Our Knowledge, called "Science and the Search for Meaning: Five Questions."
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Sunday
11/21/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, exploring the new world of "upcycling"; from the scavenger life of a do-it-yourselfer, to the second life of garbage.
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Sunday
11/14/2010
12:00 PM
101114A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, African American writers talk about race. And how black history... from segregation... to the Great Migration... to the culture of hip hop... continues to shape our racial conversation today.
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Sunday
11/14/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash talks about following in the footsteps of her father, country music icon, Johnny Cash... and how she found her own artistic voice. Also, Rob Sheffield talks about “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran.”
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Sunday
11/7/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, telling The Difficult Story.
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Sunday
11/7/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, exploring the nature of reality.
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Sunday
10/31/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, exploring magic. From tales of the paranormal to the mathematics behind magic ricks. A stage magician-turned-mathematician explores the mysteries of probability. And, a Harry Potter story for grown-ups – Lev Grossman reads from his new novel The Magicians.
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Sunday
10/31/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we get to know a few autistic people with Asperger’s Syndrome. We’ll hear what it’s like to try to live in the world when you have visionary technical abilities but also the social skills of a rock. Also, Oliver Sacks will tell us about the human brain and music.
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Sunday
10/24/2010
12:00 PM
101024A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll explore the question of where good ideas come from. Steven Johnson will tell us about the natural history of innovation. And Lewis Hyde offers a way to look beyond today’s narrow debates over cultural ownership.
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Sunday
10/24/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we come face-to-face with nature in full-force.
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Sunday
10/17/2010
12:00 PM
101017A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Concerned that your family never spends time together as a family? Sure, everyone is connected. There are computers all over the house and veryone has a cell phone, but are you connected to each other? After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, meet William Powers. He has a remedy for family-disconnect he calls "The Internet Sabbath".
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Sunday
10/17/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with tennis great Andre Agassi (AHN-dray AG-uh-see) about the fine line between love and hate.
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Sunday
10/10/2010
12:00 PM
101010A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a special program for the W-P-R Fall Fund Drive.... some of our best interviews from the past year.
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Sunday
10/10/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a special program for the W-P-R Fall Fund Drive... some of our best interviews from the past year.
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Sunday
10/3/2010
12:00 PM
101003A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, listen-in on the soundtrack to war and peace. From Andalusia... to East LA... to Sierra Leone. Plus, the politics behind Beethoven’s Ninth.
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Sunday
10/3/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with Anthony Horowitz, the creator of the Alex Rider series, about his complicated past. Michael Chabon talks about some of the stories that shaped his childhood. And we’ll hear about the radical political origins of some of best known children’s books.
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Sunday
9/26/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, To the Best of Our Knowledge tackles the big questions about the universe - from Stephen Hawking’s latest ideas about parallel universes and theories of everything, to the quantum physics of everyday life.
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Sunday
9/26/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, join To the Best of Our Knowledge, for a summery special filled with the sounds of the wild. Grab your butterfly net and your binoculars, to see the world around you in a whole new way.
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Sunday
9/19/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with Gaia (gah-EE-ah) theorist James Lovelock and Whole Earth Catalogue founder Stewart Brand.
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Sunday
9/19/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, 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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Sunday
9/12/2010
12:00 PM
100912A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Lewis Hyde introduces us to the playful and disruptive side of imagination embodied in Trickster mythology.
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Sunday
9/12/2010
1:00 PM
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His hyper-intimate, cerebral writing style and his witty, sincere persona helped make him a spokesperson for his generation. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll consider the life of American author David Foster Wallace.
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Sunday
9/5/2010
12:00 PM
100905A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, SuperHeroes. We’ll celebrate Wonder Woman’s 70th birthday with a look at her controversial new costume. We’ll also explore the actual physics of superpowers. And, “The 99” – an Islamic comic book in which each superhero reflects one of the ninety-nine names of Allah.
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Sunday
9/5/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how we’re becoming more and more like corporations. Also, the satisfactions and challenges of working with your hands.
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Sunday
8/29/2010
12:00 PM
100829A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
New research is challenging some of our most trusted advice about running and exercise. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, re-thinking running. Also, the barefoot revolution.
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Sunday
8/29/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a visit to our national parks, what filmmaker Ken Burns calls “America’s best idea.”
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Sunday
8/22/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the life and work of Richard Yates, “America’s finest forgotten author.” Also, Jonathan Lethem (LEE-them) on the legendary science-fiction author, Philip K. Dick.
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Sunday
8/22/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, losing religion. A conversation with best-selling author Rhoda Janzen about growing up Mennonite. And, Philip Pullman on being an atheist... and religious... all at the same time.
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Sunday
8/15/2010
12:00 PM
100815A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
The Internet is a free flow of ideas where everyone can say whatever they want. But for all its splashy graphics, it’s a computer font that makes the Internet look the same. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the designer of the Internet font Verdana. Also, the creators of Obama’s font, Gotham... The font of Hope and Change.
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Sunday
8/15/2010
1:00 PM
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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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Sunday
8/8/2010
12:00 PM
100808A
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After twelve-noon, 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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Sunday
8/8/2010
1:00 PM
100808B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
8/1/2010
12:00 PM
100801A
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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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Sunday
8/1/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, 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
7/25/2010
12:00 PM
100725A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we explore monsters. We meet Justin Cronin, author of the Summer hit novel "The Passage".
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Sunday
7/25/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Religion 2.0 (TWO-point-OH). Find out what spirituality looks like in today’s world.
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Sunday
7/18/2010
12:00 PM
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Meet the superstars of Scandinavian crime fiction, after twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge.
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Sunday
7/18/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, autistic savant (suh-VAHNT) Daniel Tammet explains how his amazing mind works. Also, philosophy professor Ian Hacking on "Humans, Aliens and Autism."
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Sunday
7/11/2010
12:00 PM
100711A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, poetry out-loud. Rae Armantrout reads her poems, Natalie Merchant sings our favorite classic poems, and Bobby McFerrin on the human voice as poetry.
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Sunday
7/11/2010
1:00 PM
100711B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a violinist (Anne Akiko Meyers) talks about why she chose to record a new album of popular songs to the tunes her Japanese grandmother used to hum to her.
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Sunday
7/4/2010
12:00 PM
100704A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the intersection of ancient spiritual tradition with twenty-first century politics and modernity. Also, M-C Yogi’s sacred take on hip-hop.
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Sunday
7/4/2010
1:00 PM
100704B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, stories about the most common mental health problem in the world. Award-winning journalist, Patricia Pearson, talks about her personal struggles with anxiety.
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Sunday
6/27/2010
12:00 PM
100627A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the psychology of our attachment to the places we love. Why we suffer when forests are cut down, air is polluted, rivers and oceans fouled... the link between the environment and human happiness.
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Sunday
6/27/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, travel stories. Travel guru Rick Steves develops an unexpected passion for war-torn countries. And writer William Least-heat Moon moseys along some new back roads.
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Sunday
6/20/2010
12:00 PM
100620A
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Noam Chomsky once urged intellectuals “to speak the truth and expose lies.” After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, what is the responsibility of intellectuals? We’ll ask Noam Chomsky, Christopher Hitchens, and others.
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Sunday
6/20/2010
1:00 PM
100620B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a father tells us what he and his son learned about life from watching movies together. Also, a mother on how video games can teach children.
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Sunday
6/13/2010
12:00 PM
100613A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we're obsessed with authenticity...just consider the mantra of hip hop, “keeping it real.”
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Sunday
6/13/2010
1:00 PM
100613B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the remarkable saga of a group of Christian and Muslim women in Liberia, who banded together to bring down their corrupt and violent president.
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Sunday
6/6/2010
12:00 PM
100606A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we take you to the cutting edge of psychedelic research.
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Sunday
6/6/2010
1:00 PM
100606B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, exploring life inside America’s new rootless professional class.
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Sunday
5/30/2010
12:00 PM
100530A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we try out some new words from the online world with a New York Times language blogger... words like "YakkaWow" and "suicide cuisine." Also, the rise of a new world language called Globish.
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Sunday
5/30/2010
1:00 PM
100530B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how well have journalists covered the war? Can embedded journalists accurately report on the very soldier or Marine who protects them?
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Sunday
5/23/2010
12:00 PM
100523A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we explore our enduring fascination with the afterlife by talking with Lisa Miller, the author of "Heaven." Also, a very brief history of eternity.
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Sunday
5/23/2010
1:00 PM
100523B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with Iraq War veterans about the challenges of coming home. And, what about us? Are WE ready for THEM?
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Sunday
5/16/2010
12:00 PM
100516A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, find out how the Ice Age gave birth to the first Modern Humans. And, the real secret of evolution... cooking.
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Sunday
5/16/2010
1:00 PM
100516B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, "esprit de corps" (eh-SPREE- duh-CORE), the glue that holds the U.S. military together. "Esprit de Corps" is Part Three of the series, "Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq".
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Sunday
5/9/2010
12:00 PM
100509A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, myths and legends about magic and witchcraft... and forgotten fairy tales.
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Sunday
5/9/2010
1:00 PM
100509B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with the planners of the Iraq War. 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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Sunday
5/2/2010
12:00 PM
100502A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, an argument in favor of the radically local life. Living small and liking it.
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Sunday
5/2/2010
1:00 PM
100502B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, April 6, 2004... a day that transformed the war in Iraq. It’s Part One of "Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq".
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Sunday
4/25/2010
12:00 PM
100425A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, healing stories from far off the beaten path, including... a cancer vaccine?
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Sunday
4/25/2010
1:00 PM
100425B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the unique ways people learn what they have to know. We’ll also take a hard look at IQ and its relationship to race and class, and consider why dyslexia can be a gift.
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Sunday
4/18/2010
12:00 PM
100418A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with rocker Patti Smith about her remarkable new memoir, as well as talk with novelist Ian McEwan about today's literary world.
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Sunday
4/18/2010
1:00 PM
100418B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, what made Robert Palmer such a great music critic. Also...John Mendelssohn on his double-life as music critic and singer.
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Sunday
4/11/2010
12:00 PM
100411A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at what can happen when you stay positive. Michael Gates Gill reminds us we have a lot to be grateful for, and Suzan Colon shares recipes of the food that got her family through hard times.
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Sunday
4/11/2010
1:00 PM
100411B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Wicked plants, after one on To the Best of Our Knowledge. Also, the guerrilla gardening movement and the Garden of Cosmic Speculation.
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Sunday
4/4/2010
12:00 PM
100404A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, writers on writing. Jane Hamilton was inspired by a writing workshop she taught on a cruise – that she hated. And, why would a rock star write a novel? Find out from bad seed Nick Cave.
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Sunday
4/4/2010
1:00 PM
100404B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, constructing a sense-of-place. Lessons in the new localism. And, a history of walking.
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Sunday
3/28/2010
12:00 PM
100328A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, stories from the lands of snow and ice. What do we stand to lose when the world's ice melts?
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Sunday
3/28/2010
1:00 PM
100328B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll explore the world of karaoke (CARE-ee-OH-key). We’ll experience live-band karaoke with The Gomers... it gives people the chance to be a rock star for five minutes
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Sunday
3/21/2010
12:00 PM
100321A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
For decades it remained the most famous unpublished book in the history of psychology. Carl Jung (YOUNG) refused to publish it during his lifetimes, and his heirs kept it locked up after he died. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why the just-published legendary “Red Book” by Carl Jung's (YOUNG) will change our thinking about Carl Jung.
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Sunday
3/21/2010
1:00 PM
100321B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how discoveries were made about the human brain long before science, as we explore the cultures of arts and science.
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Sunday
3/14/2010
12:00 PM
100314A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, meet Aubrey de Grey, a maverick English scientist who’s identified seven major kinds of molecular and cellular damage. He thinks we can prevent all these natural cases of death and thereby extend our lives indefinitely.
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Sunday
3/14/2010
1:00 PM
100314B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore the life and work of John Cheever with his biographer, Blake Bailey. Also, the playful, postmodern fiction of Donald Barthelme.
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Sunday
3/7/2010
12:00 PM
100307A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Mary Karr is a best-selling writer, a mother... and an alcoholic. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Karr talks about her journey from addiction to awe.
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Sunday
3/7/2010
1:00 PM
100307B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Anne D. LeClaire talks about her decision to remain silent for two days every month.
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Sunday
2/28/2010
12:00 PM
100228A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, some of the best interviews of the past year.
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Sunday
2/28/2010
1:00 PM
100228B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, more of the best interviews of the past year.
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Sunday
2/21/2010
12:00 PM
100221A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Henry Alford shares some age-old wisdom he received. Also, David Greenberger and the art he creates out of his conversations with older people.
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Sunday
2/21/2010
1:00 PM
100221B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll meet Michael Schaffer. He’s been investigating the new dog-friendly America. And we’ll get a visit from the Dog Whisperer... Cesar Millan talks about being Pack Leader.
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Sunday
2/14/2010
12:00 PM
100214A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Many of us first met Islam on 9/11 which certainly didn’t make a very good first impression. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a proper introduction to Islam, as we talk with Muslims and Westerners who are redefining our relationship.
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Sunday
2/14/2010
1:00 PM
100214B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, cyber-warfare and the rise of the American surveillance state.
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Sunday
2/7/2010
12:00 PM
100207A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a closer look at who’s claiming, and reclaiming, Islam.
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Sunday
2/7/2010
1:00 PM
100207B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
1/31/2010
12:00 PM
100131A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
1/31/2010
1:00 PM
100131B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
1/24/2010
12:00 PM
100124A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
1/24/2010
1:00 PM
100124B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
1/17/2010
12:00 PM
100117A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
1/17/2010
1:00 PM
100117B
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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
1/10/2010
12:00 PM
100110A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
1/10/2010
1:00 PM
100110B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
1/3/2010
12:00 PM
100103A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Change Over Time.
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Sunday
1/3/2010
1:00 PM
100103B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: The Course of Time.
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Sunday
12/27/2009
12:00 PM
091227A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the art of "alone time."
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Sunday
12/27/2009
1:00 PM
091227B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
12/20/2009
12:00 PM
091220A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
12/20/2009
1:00 PM
091220B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, pondering world economics.
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Sunday
12/13/2009
12:00 PM
091213A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
12/13/2009
1:00 PM
091213B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
12/6/2009
12:00 PM
091206A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
12/6/2009
1:00 PM
091206B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
11/29/2009
12:00 PM
091129A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
11/29/2009
1:00 PM
091129B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
11/22/2009
12:00 PM
091122A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
11/22/2009
1:00 PM
091122B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
11/15/2009
12:00 PM
091115A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
11/15/2009
1:00 PM
091115B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
11/8/2009
12:00 PM
091108A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
11/8/2009
1:00 PM
091108B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
11/1/2009
12:00 PM
091101A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
11/1/2009
1:00 PM
091101B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
10/25/2009
12:00 PM
091025A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
10/25/2009
1:00 PM
091025B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
10/18/2009
12:00 PM
091018A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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
10/18/2009
1:00 PM
091018B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
10/11/2009
12:00 PM
091011A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge - Web Edition
A look at the impact of Globalization.
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Sunday
10/11/2009
1:00 PM
091011B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge - Web Edition
Contemplating the age-old dream of discovering an Earthly paradise... in search of Shangri-La.
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Sunday
10/4/2009
12:00 PM
091004A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
10/4/2009
1:00 PM
091004B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
9/27/2009
12:00 PM
090927A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll take you to the national parks – Yosemite, Denali and Carlsbad Caverns. We’ll also explore some forgotten parts of our history: how the “buffalo soldiers” helped create America’s first parks.
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Sunday
9/27/2009
1:00 PM
090927B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the Amish ritual of Rumspringa. (ROOM-shpring-uh) - when 16 year-olds decide about their future.
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Sunday
9/20/2009
12:00 PM
090920A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the fairy-tale story of the game that remade the South African nation – the Rugby World Cup of 1995.
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Sunday
9/20/2009
1:00 PM
090920B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll wax philosophical about science fiction with two of the genre's greatest writers... George R.R. Martin and Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Sunday
9/13/2009
12:00 PM
090913A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: poetry. We’ll talk with four-time Slam Poet champion Patricia Smith about how powerful words are when spoken out loud.
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Sunday
9/13/2009
1:00 PM
090913B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we meet the co-founders of The East Village Opera Company; then find out what happens when old-school meets new-school as they re-imagine opera's greatest hits as popular songs.
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Sunday
9/6/2009
12:00 PM
090906A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Douglas Rushkoff talks about his new book, “Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back.” Also, Matthew Crawford on the satisfactions and challenges of working with your hands.
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Sunday
9/6/2009
1:00 PM
090906B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Al Green talks about the sacred and profane.
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Sunday
8/30/2009
12:00 PM
090830A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Religion 2.0 (two-point-oh). Americans are patching together spirituality and faiths from around the world to find something to believe in.
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Sunday
8/30/2009
1:00 PM
090830B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, experts warn that reading is in decline as our cultural life moves online. We offer an hour in praise... and defense... of the book.
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Sunday
8/23/2009
12:00 PM
090823A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the life and work of David Foster Wallace, whose witty, sincere persona helped make him a spokesperson for his generation.
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Sunday
8/23/2009
1:00 PM
090823B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a Harvard-trained brain scientist who suffered a crippling stroke and watched... in clinical detail... what was happening to her own mind and body while she was having it.
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Sunday
8/16/2009
12:00 PM
090816A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, remix culture. Digital sampling, audio hacking, mash-ups… In today’s music and art it’s all about mix and remix.
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Sunday
8/16/2009
1:00 PM
090816B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, author Andrew Davidson on his novel, "The Gargoyle." It has been described as an "Inferno" for our time
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Sunday
8/9/2009
12:00 PM
090809A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a violinist (Anne Akiko Meyers) talks about why she chose to record popular songs for her new album. From Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile” to the tunes her Japanese grandmother used to hum to her.
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Sunday
8/9/2009
1:00 PM
090809B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, deja vu. What causes us to think we've already experienced the exact same situation before, even though we haven't?
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Sunday
8/2/2009
12:00 PM
090802A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, autistic savant (sah-VAHNT) Daniel Tammet (TAM-ett) explains how his amazing mind works. Also, philosophy professor Ian Hacking on “Humans, Aliens and Autism.”
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Sunday
8/2/2009
1:00 PM
090802B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we explore post-modernism. Salman Rushdie (SAL-m'n RUSH-dee) talks about "The Enchantress of Florence".
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Sunday
7/26/2009
12:00 PM
090726A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the Cowboy Junkies look back on “The Trinity Sessions,” the moment that defined the alt-country movement.
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Sunday
7/26/2009
1:00 PM
090726B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Today’s entertainment industry is shrinking the gap between real life and fantasy. Popular television shows like Big Brother turn ordinary life into an engaging drama. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how real is reality entertainment?
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Sunday
7/19/2009
12:00 PM
090719A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Religion was supposed to be dying. But God is making a comeback in countries around the world, from Russia to China to Turkey. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll get the story behind a global revival of faith.
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Sunday
7/19/2009
1:00 PM
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Planning to see the world this summer? Or enjoy the frugal pleasure of a stay-cation? Remember, the best travel isn’t about miles logged... it’s about minds expanded. After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, travel stories. Travel guru Rick Steves develops an unexpected passion for war-torn countries.
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Sunday
7/12/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll explore life inside America’s new rootless professional class. Also, film-maker Guy Maddin talks about his critically-acclaimed documentary about his hometown, “My Winnipeg.”
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Sunday
7/12/2009
1:00 PM
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Anyway you describe it, he has arrived. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll get inside the music of one of music’s new stars Josh Ritter.
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Sunday
7/5/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, re-thinking animal intelligence. Not only are they smarter than we thought... in some cases they’re smarter than us.
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Sunday
7/5/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the front lines of memory research. The good news is that most of us won’t live long enough to get Alzheimer’s. And the rest of us can prevent it by raising our heart rates.
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Sunday
6/28/2009
12:00 PM
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After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Myths and legends about magic and witchcraft, and forgotten fairy tales - from an animated version of the Ramayana to the dada-ist fairy tales the Nazis tried to burn.
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Sunday
6/28/2009
1:00 PM
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After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the new abolitionists – including a reporter who risked his life to document the global traffic in human beings, and a woman who is free today for the first time in 28 years.
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Sunday
6/21/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, wicked plants. Also, the Guerrilla Gardening movement, and the Garden of Cosmic Speculation.
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Sunday
6/21/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the power of We, and the move toward Collective Identity and Global Think.
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Sunday
6/14/2009
12:00 PM
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President Obama is out to remake America’s relationship with the Islamic world. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, explore what this means for both the Middle East and the U.S. Also, a look at the ongoing debate over Muslim immigration in Europe, and a conversation with a Hollywood screenwriter about his new novel on the Prophet Muhammad and his wife Aisha.
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Sunday
6/14/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, David Gilmour tells us what he and his son learned about life from watching movies together. Also, Katie Salen (SAY-lehn) on how video games can teach children.
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Sunday
6/7/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a blunt question: "did we win the war in Iraq?"
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Sunday
6/7/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Daniel Wolff's list of twelve great Americans and how they learned what they had to know.
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Sunday
5/31/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why one writer says the feminist movement lost its way and ended up making men the enemy. Is it time to save the males?
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Sunday
5/31/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the New Atheism with Richard Dawkins and two of his critics.
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Sunday
5/24/2009
12:00 PM
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How much do you know about the place where you live? After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, constructing a sense of place. Lessons in the new localism. And, a history of walking.
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Sunday
5/24/2009
1:00 PM
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After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll explore the world of karaoke. We’ll experience live-band karaoke with The Gomers; it gives people the chance to be a rock star for five minutes.
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Sunday
5/17/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, meet a maverick English scientist who’s identified seven major kinds of molecular and cellular damage. He thinks we can prevent all these natural cases of death and thereby extend our lives indefinitely.
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Sunday
5/17/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, find out how the "nerd" stereotype is harming children. Also, explore a new kind of music called Nerdcore Hip Hop, alias Geeksta (GEEK-stah)Rap.
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Sunday
5/10/2009
12:00 PM
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Why are we in Afghanistan? And, just what would victory in Afghanistan look like anyway? After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the question of Afghanistan.
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Sunday
5/10/2009
1:00 PM
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Every mom deserves something special on Mother’s Day. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge stories by, for, and about mothers.
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Sunday
5/3/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, explore the life and work of John Cheever with his biographer, Blake Bailey. Also, the playful, postmodern fiction of Donald Barthelme.
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Sunday
5/3/2009
1:00 PM
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Two people, a house, a pitchfork, and a barn. It's hard to find a better-known American painting than Grant Wood's masterpiece “American Gothic.” But just who are those grim people, and why do they have such a hold on the American psyche? After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the history of an American classic.
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Sunday
4/26/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, President Obama’s plan will bring home some one-hundred-fifty-thousand troops from Iraq. But what are they coming home to? And, are we ready for them?
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Sunday
4/26/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, meet Carlene Carter, daughter of June Carter Cash and stepdaughter of Country music legend Johnny Cash. Also, the epic life of American music icon, Willie Nelson.
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Sunday
4/19/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll take stock of Iran three decades after the revolution as we examine the country and it’s culture through music, film and politics.
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Sunday
4/19/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, meet Pattie Boyd, the woman who inspired three of the most famous rock songs of all time.
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Sunday
4/12/2009
12:00 PM
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The happiness industry is booming, and with good reason - everyone wants to be happy. After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Brain researcher Richard Davidson says the brain that meditates is a happy brain.
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Sunday
4/12/2009
1:00 PM
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Something’s going on with America’s dogs. After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll meet Michael Schaffer. He’s been investigating the new dog-friendly America.
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Sunday
4/5/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Our environment is in trouble. It's not hard to imagine global catastrophe as problems like climate change and overpopulation take their toll. But there's always hope and this hour, we'll introduce you to the visionaries who are making a difference
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Sunday
4/5/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, stories from the Great Depression... advice from the generation that survived the old hard times. Also, celebrating the WPA. And, Woody Guthrie’s unpublished love songs.
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Sunday
3/29/2009
12:00 PM
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They call it, “the dismal science,” but economics does have its visionaries. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with a couple of Nobel laureates with some hands-on economic lessons.
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Sunday
3/29/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how one woman was inspired to remain silent for two days each month. Also, hear some “noise music” as we focus our attention on “noise.”
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Sunday
3/22/2009
12:00 PM
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After telve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, laptops to change the world in poor countries, and a video game that makes you cry. It’s part one of "Future Perfect," a four-part series on Visionaries.
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Sunday
3/22/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Susan Jacoby (Ja-KOH-bee) talks about her book, "The Age of American Unreason." Also, find out how the Internet is killing our culture.
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Sunday
3/15/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll face time, with the engineer of The Clock of the Long Now.
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Sunday
3/15/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Shakespeare makes his way to the graphic novel... and to the culture wars.
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Sunday
3/8/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the natural history of The Teenager. A scientist says "the teens" are designed to give our brains time to develop.
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Sunday
3/8/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, exploring our obsession with life-lists, like “One-thousand Places You Must Visit Before You Die?” and “One-thousand-one Movies You Must See Before You Die.”
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Sunday
3/1/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, it's To the Best of Our Knowledge, an audio magazine of ideas, two hours of smart, entertaining radio for people with curious minds.
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Sunday
3/1/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge,
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Sunday
2/22/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with biographer and author Eric Lax about talking to Woody Allen.
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Sunday
2/22/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Is religion dangerous?
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Sunday
2/15/2009
12:00 PM
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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. Get a basic primer (PRIMMER) in physics, after twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge.
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Sunday
2/15/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, William Shakespeare makes his way to the graphic novel and to the culture wars.
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Sunday
2/8/2009
12:00 PM
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After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday with a look at the man as well as the myth.
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Sunday
2/8/2009
1:00 PM
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After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, what Darwin thought about God. And we'll hear from atheists Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, as well as the leading historian of creationism.
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Sunday
2/1/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the so-called dismal science. We’ll talk with the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics on why the alarm bells never rang.
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Sunday
2/1/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the art of alone time. Robert Kull explores solitude, and is surprised at what he finds.
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Sunday
1/25/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we go behind the scenes of the greatest day in American sport... the Super Bowl.
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Sunday
1/25/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, life’s final chapter... is there such thing as “a good death”?
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Sunday
1/18/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, people who hunt, and some of their reasons why.
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Sunday
1/18/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, learning outside the box. And, re-defining "normal" for kids on the short bus.
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Sunday
1/11/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, it's To the Best of Our Knowledge.
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Sunday
1/11/2009
1:00 PM
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Sunday
1/4/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, what exactly did Einstein conclude about religion? We’ll hear from leading scientists and religious scholars, including Richard Dawkins, Steven Weinberg, and Elaine Pagels.
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Sunday
1/4/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we get to know a few autistic people with Asperger’s Syndrome.
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Sunday
12/28/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the quest for beautiful.
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Sunday
12/28/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Apocalyptic Fiction... new stories about the End-of-the World.
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Sunday
12/21/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the costs and... YES... the benefits of suburban sprawl. Because maybe, just maybe, sprawl is a good thing.
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Sunday
12/21/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, music critic Carl Wilson shares his story of trying to get in touch with his inner Celine Dion (sell-EEN dee-ON) fan.
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Sunday
12/14/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, 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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Sunday
12/14/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the strange things that happen when people take their beliefs literally. Sometimes it works out... sometimes it’s a mistake. But one thing’s for certain... walking-the-walk takes a lot of guts.
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Sunday
12/7/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, designing green. And, don’t just think solar houses... think solar cities... it’s already happening.
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Sunday
12/7/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we take a look at the inner world of boys. A conversation with the author of “The Dangerous Book for Boys” who says it’s time to celebrate slingshots and skinned knees.
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Sunday
11/30/2008
12:00 PM
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After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, going, going, gone green. There’s an eco-revolution sweeping America – and the world. Can this new grassroots environmental movement save the planet?
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Sunday
11/30/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, To the Best of Our Knowledge touches on a few cultural touchstones....from Sputnik to Snoopy.
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Sunday
11/23/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll wax philosophical about science fiction with two of the genre's greatest writers, George R.R. Martin, and Ursula K. Le Guin. (leh-GWINN)
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Sunday
11/23/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how psychiatry turned "sadness" into "clinical depression".
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Sunday
11/16/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the art of the celebrity interview. Also, a conversation with veteran journalist Gay Talese.
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Sunday
11/16/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we explore issues of transgender identity. We'll meet Aaron Raz Link, who formerly was Sarah. We'll also meet his mother, Hilda Raz.
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Sunday
11/9/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge... poetry. A conversation with four-time Slam Poet champion Patricia Smith about how powerful words are when spoken out loud. And, a man many regard as the greatest writer in the English language, Australian poet Les Murray.
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Sunday
11/9/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, food stories. How far did your food travel to get to you today? 100 miles? A thousand? Or just down the street? No matter where today's meal came from, there's a story behind it.
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Sunday
11/2/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a personal story from the new age of genetic testing.
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Sunday
11/2/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, modern music... as the East Village Opera Company re-imagines opera as popular song.
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Sunday
10/26/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the fairy-tale story of a rugby match that brought black and white South Africans together.
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Sunday
10/26/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the phenomenon of auditory hallucination... what it means to really hear voices in your head.
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Sunday
10/19/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Al Green talks about the sacred and the profane.
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Sunday
10/19/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll look at what happened to the wine world in 1976, when wine from the Napa Valley won a blind tasting and turned the industry upside down.
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Sunday
10/12/2008
12:00 PM
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10/12/2008
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Sunday
10/5/2008
12:00 PM
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10/5/2008
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Sunday
9/28/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, an hour in praise and defense of the book. Ursula Le Guin takes book publishers to task, and a beloved children’s book editor recalls happy days with Danny the Dinosaur and Little Bear.
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Sunday
9/28/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a coversation with Andrew Davidson about "The Gargoyle," which has been described as an "Inferno" for our time. Also, the delightfully disturbing tales of Kelly Link.
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Sunday
9/21/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a talk with a Harvard-trained brain scientist who observed... in clinical detail... her own stroke.
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Sunday
9/21/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, John Leland on the lessons of "On The Road" and why Jack Kerouac (CARE-oh-wack) still matters.
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Sunday
9/14/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at Boomer Backlash. Are Boomers selfish and materialistic... or iconoclasts who deserve gratitude?
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Sunday
9/14/2008
1:00 PM
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After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Tales of Sea Serpents, Lake Monsters, and Abominable Snowmen.... the mythical beasts of folktale and legend, and the modern researchers who are still hunting for them.
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Sunday
9/7/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, examining deja vu (DAY-zjah VOO) and what causes us to think we've already experienced the exact same situation before... even though we haven't.
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Sunday
9/7/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, “learning science.” How NOVA stays up to date, and Newton's laws set to a hip-hop beat.
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Sunday
8/31/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Winston Churchill's biographer Martin Gilbert explains how the man who offered his nation only blood, sweat, toil, and tears made it believe that was enough.
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Sunday
8/31/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll hear the latest science on brain plasticity. Who says you can't teach an old brain new tricks?
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Sunday
8/24/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, dissecting the Sixties... and a conversation with activist Tom Hayden.
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Sunday
8/24/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, “Encountering Islam”. A controversial philosopher who believes Muslims can thrive in secular, Western society, and an equally controversial figure who's living under a death threat... targeted by Islamic radicals. Hear from both of these impassioned activists.
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Sunday
8/17/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Science writer Fred Pearce talks about water... the defining crisis of the twenty-first century.
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Sunday
8/17/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a Pakistani Muslim in the Midwest, and an Indian filmmaker in America... part of a special program, "Culture in the Crossroads."
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Sunday
8/10/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, The Cowboy Junkies look back at "The Trinity Session"... the moment that defined the alt-country movement.
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Sunday
8/10/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with cellist (CHELL-ist) Yo-Yo Ma (yo-yo-MAH) as part of our program “The New Silk Road.”
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Sunday
8/3/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with Salman Rushdie (SAL-muhn ROOSH-dee) about his new book, and explore the surreal musical world of Robert Ellis Orrall as we consider "postmodernism."
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Sunday
8/3/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at how Eastern religions have changed America... and how America is changing them.
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Sunday
7/27/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look inside the music of one of music’s new stars, Josh Ritter.
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Sunday
7/27/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the question, is there an irreconcilable conflict between Islam and the West... a “clash of civilizations”?
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Sunday
7/20/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the re-mix culture. Digital sampling, audio hacking, mash-ups… In today’s music and art it’s all about mix... and remix again.
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Sunday
7/20/2008
1:00 PM
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The entertainment industry is eliminating the gap between real life and fantasy. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, explore the gray-area where Real Life meets Entertainment.
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Sunday
7/13/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, re-thinking animal intelligence. Not only are they smarter than we THOUGHT... in some cases they’re smarter than US.
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Sunday
7/13/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, heroes, anti-heroes, and regular folks strutt their stuff, in a look at different kinds of comic books.
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Sunday
7/6/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with actor Tim Robbins, who recently staged a theatrical adaptation of “1984" set in our own time. He says the story is more relevant than ever.
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Sunday
7/6/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, on the front lines of memory research. The good news is that most of us won’t live long enough to get Alzheimer’s. And the rest of us can prevent it by raising our heart rates.
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Sunday
6/29/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why one writer says the feminist movement lost its way and ended up making men the enemy.
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Sunday
6/29/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the peak oil crisis. Also, doomsday scenarios from Islam to Christianity.
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Sunday
6/22/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the New Atheism, with Richard Dawkins and two of his critics.
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Sunday
6/22/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the Amish ritual of Rumspringa (ROOM-shpring-uh), a period in adolescence that allows youth to choose baptism within the Amish church or instead leave the community.
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Sunday
6/15/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the "embed" system. How can journalists accurately report on the very soldiers who protect them? Has the U.S. military made the journalist a weapon of war?
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Sunday
6/15/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Susan Orlean (or -LEEN) tells us about some of the Saturday nights she spent with different people across the U.S. ... in an effort to discover the magic and mystique of this night.
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Sunday
6/8/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll meet country singer-songwriter Carlene Carter. Also, the epic life of American music icon Willie Nelson.
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Sunday
6/8/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the power of WE, and the move toward collective identity and global think.
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Sunday
6/1/2008
12:00 PM
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Hummingbirds hum and whales sing, after twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge. Join us for a summertime special filled with the sounds of the wild. Grab your butterfly net and your binoculars and we’ll help you see the world around you in a whole new way.
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Sunday
6/1/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, some new ideas about a very old subject... non-violence. And, could non-violence have prevented World War II?
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Sunday
5/25/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the dark side of secrecy... warrantless wiretaps, secret CIA prisons, extraordinary rendition, waterboarding... all wrapped up in a classified Pentagon Black Ops budget worth some 30-billion dollars.
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Sunday
5/25/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, find out how the nerd stereotype is harming children. Also, explore nerdcore hip hop, a new kind of music called Geeksta Rap.
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Sunday
5/18/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the role Israeli writers play in the Middle East Peace Process. Also, America’s role in the area, which goes back to the eighteenth century.
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Sunday
5/18/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll meet Patti Boyd, the woman who inspired three of the most famous rock songs of all time, from George Harrison’s “Something” to Eric Clapton’s “Layla.”
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Sunday
5/11/2008
12:00 PM
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