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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Sunday
8/12/2007
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, "Tristram Shandy," the film. We'll hear a review it and a comparison of the film to the book. And they'll even sing about it.
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Sunday
8/12/2007
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the history of ideas... from fire... to Freud.
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Sunday
8/5/2007
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, 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
8/5/2007
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Electrons to Enlightenment Part Five: Awe and Wonder.
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Sunday
7/29/2007
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at suicide bombers - why there are so many in this generation, how their families feel, and what, if anything, we can do about them.
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Sunday
7/29/2007
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: "Debating Darwin," part four of “Electrons to Enlightenment: A Special Series on Science and Religion.”
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Sunday
7/22/2007
12:00 PM
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Are we running out of water? After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge Science writer Fred Pearce talks about the defining crisis of the twenty-first century...water. He's traveled the world to investigate the current state of crucial water sources.
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Sunday
7/22/2007
1:00 PM
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The Dalai Lama is looking for scientific proof that meditation works. In labs across the country, gene hunters are decoding the genetics of faith. After one, on To the Best of our Knowledge, part three of Electrons to Enlightenment: A Special Series on Science and Religion.
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Sunday
7/15/2007
12:00 PM
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Everyone knows what comic books are about, right? But it's not all about people in long underwear hitting each other. After twelve-noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, comic books... heroes, anti-heroes... and regular folks...
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Sunday
7/15/2007
1:00 PM
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How did the universe begin? After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll explore the issue in part two of “Electrons to Enlightenment: A Special Series on Science & Religion.”
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Sunday
7/8/2007
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To The Best Of Our Knowledge, the greatest chess player ever, Garry Kasparov.
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Sunday
7/8/2007
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge it's part one of “Electrons to Enlightenment: A Special Series on Science & Religion.” This time the subject is science versus religion.
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Sunday
7/1/2007
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
7/1/2007
1:00 PM
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After one, on To The Best Of Our Knowledge, car racing... from NASCAR... to Formula One, with a few Pit Stops in between.
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Sunday
6/24/2007
12:00 PM
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On To the Best of Our Knowledge, a scholar argues that every American should know the basics of the world's religions.
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Sunday
6/24/2007
1:00 PM
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On To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll meet a singer who is doing her part to bring the ukulele back into popular music. Also, the master musical craftsmanship of Antonio Stradivari.
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Sunday
6/17/2007
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To The Best Of Our Knowledge, the Amish ritual of Rumspringa (ROOM-shpring-uh)... the period of complete freedom... when Amish teens decide their futures.
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Sunday
6/17/2007
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
6/10/2007
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll dive into the world of pulp fiction. From the class noir novel, "The Postman Always Rings Twice," to the gritty under-belly of Nelson Algren's Chicago. Also, the ground-breaking graphic novels of Chris Ware.
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Sunday
6/10/2007
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Susan Orlean tells us about some of her efforts to discover the magic and mystique of Saturday night.
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Sunday
6/3/2007
12:00 PM
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One of the worst things about growing up is you get kicked out of the children's section of the library. Well, have no fear. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, it's children's books, for us.
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Sunday
6/3/2007
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the dangers facing Iraqi Intellectuals, and we hear from a celebrated Iraqi poet.
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Sunday
5/27/2007
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Part Two of our series “Author!, Author!” It’s Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" as we ask the question "what makes a modern classic?"
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Sunday
5/27/2007
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the green revolution that's sweeping America... and the world. Can a global grassroots movement to save the planet succeed where politicians have failed?
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Sunday
5/20/2007
12:00 PM
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Who's the greatest writer living today? After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge great writers on great books. Nobel Laureates Toni Morrison and V.S. Naipaul (NIGH - pawl). And if that's not enough, we'll also hear from Amy Tan, Alice Walker and Sherman Alexie.
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Sunday
5/20/2007
1:00 PM
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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
5/13/2007
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, 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 Two?
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Sunday
5/13/2007
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, conversations with brave souls traveling the culinary highway. A visit to the kitchen of Homaro Cantu at Moto, in Chicago, Illinois. A self-proclaimed Gastronaut for a trip down the weird, wild, and outrageous byways of food.
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Sunday
5/6/2007
12:00 PM
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In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll talk about the hazards of war reporting with George Packer, a staff writer for The New Yorker.
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Sunday
5/6/2007
1:00 PM
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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? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the history of an American classic.
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Sunday
4/29/2007
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a discussion of aging with a Nobel Prize winner who researches the mechanics of memory.
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Sunday
4/29/2007
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with E.O. Wilson about the growing rift between science and religion... why he calls himself a “provisional deist,” and what he dislikes about the whole idea of an eternal afterlife in heaven.
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Sunday
4/22/2007
12:00 PM
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After twelve noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, explore Japanese popular culture and its hold on the American imagination.
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Sunday
4/22/2007
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, lessons in optimism, and the science of happiness... evidence that the world is actually better off than you'd think from reading the news.
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Sunday
4/15/2007
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the physics of time travel. Plus, the debate over why the universe is so finely-tuned for life.
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Sunday
4/15/2007
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge a look at the book business. Steve Berry talks about writing three books at once and Zadie Smith pays tribute to E.M. Forster.
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