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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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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