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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Sunday
4/20/2008
1:00 PM
080420B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, great writers on great books. Conversations with Nobel Laureates Toni Morrison and V.S. Naipaul (NIGH-pawl).
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Sunday
4/13/2008
12:00 PM
080413A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Imagine the world as we know it, only without us. After twelve-noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a writer imagines a world reinventing itself without human beings.
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Sunday
4/13/2008
1:00 PM
080413B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we get into the fight over genre fiction. And Richard Price talks about his best-selling novel “Lush Life” and why no one will ever mistake it for genre fiction.
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Sunday
4/6/2008
12:00 PM
080406A
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Are Americans dumbing down instead of smartening up? After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Susan Jacoby (Ja-KOH-bee) joins us to talk about her book, "The Age of American Unreason."
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Sunday
4/6/2008
1:00 PM
080406B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, to breed or not to breed? Stories about birth, adoption, and the childless revolution.
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Sunday
3/30/2008
12:00 PM
080330A
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After twelve-noon 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
3/30/2008
1:00 PM
080330B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the things people eat for pleasure... from quintuple espresso cheesecake brownies to putrefied shark meat.
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Sunday
3/23/2008
12:00 PM
080323A
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There was a time in the Middle Ages when scholars of all religions could meet and discuss in peace. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about this remarkable culture, with novelist and historian Tariq Ali (Tah-REEK Ah-LEE).
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Sunday
3/23/2008
1:00 PM
080323B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Jonathan Lethem (Lee-thuhm) talks about his novel, the story of a Los Angeles alternative-rock band. And the great pub rock revolution.
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Sunday
3/16/2008
12:00 PM
080316A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, explore the exotic world of foreign languages. Hear the confessions of a language fanatic. Also, six-word memoirs. "One life. Six words. What's yours?"
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Sunday
3/16/2008
1:00 PM
080316B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at age and memory with a Nobel Prize winner searching through the mechanics of the brain.
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Sunday
3/9/2008
12:00 PM
080309A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, learning outside the box. And, redefining normal for kids on the short bus.
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Sunday
3/9/2008
1:00 PM
080309B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll talk about doing nothing, as we take an exciting look at boredom.
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Sunday
3/2/2008
12:00 PM
080302A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, touching the sound of a monk’s silence, and a seal’s call. And, an exploration of sound with famed percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who happens to be deaf.
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Sunday
3/2/2008
1:00 PM
080302B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, exploring the mystery of consciousness.
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Sunday
2/24/2008
12:00 PM
080224A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we get to know a few autistic people with Asperger’s Syndrome. What’s it like to try to live in the world when you have visionary technical abilities but also the social skills of a rock? Also, neurologist Oliver Sacks tells us about the human brain and music.
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Sunday
2/24/2008
1:00 PM
080224B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at life’s final chapter. Novelist Susan Sontag's son asks the question "is there such a thing as a good death?"
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Sunday
2/17/2008
12:00 PM
080217A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the physics of time travel, and the debate over why the universe seems so finely-tuned for life.
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Sunday
2/17/2008
1:00 PM
080217B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with author Eric Lax about talking with Woody Allen. Also, a look at how independent screenplays work.
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Sunday
2/10/2008
12:00 PM
080210A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the many delights of chocolate.
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Sunday
2/10/2008
1:00 PM
080210B
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, more of the sweet exploration of chocolate.
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Sunday
2/3/2008
12:00 PM
080203A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the complicated feelings many women have about Hillary Clinton, her marriage to Bill, and whether it’s possible to evaluate her run for president without thinking about the fact that she’s female.
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Sunday
2/3/2008
1:00 PM
080203B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the costs and the benefits of suburban sprawl. Because just maybe, sprawl is a good thing.
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Sunday
1/27/2008
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
1/27/2008
1:00 PM
080127B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, music writer Carl Wilson shares his story of trying to get in touch with his inner Celine Dion (seh-LEAN dee-ON) fan.
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Sunday
1/20/2008
12:00 PM
080120A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Apocalyptic Fiction... new stories about the End of the World. Join us for end times, global panic, space plagues, zombies and lots of other good stuff.
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Sunday
1/20/2008
1:00 PM
080120B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell shares his story of plagiarism.
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Sunday
1/13/2008
12:00 PM
080113A
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After twelve-noon, on To The Best Of Our Knowledge, the audacity of American politics. How did we get from Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton in a little over 200 years? And, where are we headed?
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Sunday
1/13/2008
1:00 PM
080113B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, meet some people who’ve had to befriend a troubled brain... their own or a loved one’s. Writers, musicians, and plain old Moms.
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Sunday
1/6/2008
12:00 PM
080106A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, what exactly did Einstein conclude about religion? We 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
1/6/2008
1:00 PM
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Why are 20-percent of us still smoking? That's 60-million Americans. And new smokers start every day. Why? It must be more than just nicotine. After one, on To The Best Of Our Knowledge, smoking... exploring the sublime pleasures of taking a puff.
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Sunday
12/30/2007
12:00 PM
071230A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the strange things that happen when people take their beliefs literally. One thing’s for certain... walking the walk takes a lot of guts.
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Sunday
12/30/2007
1:00 PM
071230B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, meet Nathan Zuckerman's creator, renowned novelist Philip Roth. And find out how both Roth and his fictional alter ego are dealing with the ravages of aging.
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Sunday
12/23/2007
12:00 PM
071223A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore Northern Europe's fictional crime wave.
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Sunday
12/23/2007
1:00 PM
071223B
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, stories of a darker kind of travel as a woman returns to where she was attacked in central Oregon. She says closure doesn’t replace justice.
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Sunday
12/16/2007
12:00 PM
071216A
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It's the holiday season and for many a season of sadness. But what's so wrong with sadness? After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how psychiatry turned sadness into depression.
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