Sunday, August 25, 2019, 1:00pm
Do remember the first time you saw a piece of art or heard a piece of music that shocked you? Something you immediately knew your parents would hate? Remember how good it felt, to like something bad? IThis week, we're talking about shock value — the virtues of transgressive, subversive, rule-breaking art. As an aesthetic and as a way of life.
Saturday, August 24, 2019, 3:00pm
Your finger’s hovering over the "delete" button on your Facebook app. Your friends are abandoning Twitter. Every day brings fresh revelations of data breaches, trolls and privacy abuses. Is it time to hit “delete” on all of it? Or could social media still be reformed? And if so -- how?
Sunday, August 25, 2019, 1:00pm
Do remember the first time you saw a piece of art or heard a piece of music that shocked you? Something you immediately knew your parents would hate? Remember how good it felt, to like something bad? IThis week, we're talking about shock value — the virtues of transgressive, subversive, rule-breaking art. As an aesthetic and as a way of life.
Saturday, August 24, 2019, 3:00pm
Your finger’s hovering over the "delete" button on your Facebook app. Your friends are abandoning Twitter. Every day brings fresh revelations of data breaches, trolls and privacy abuses. Is it time to hit “delete” on all of it? Or could social media still be reformed? And if so -- how?
Sunday, August 18, 2019, 1:00pm
Modern anti-depressants have saved a lot of minds. And lives. But our 30-year experiment with modern anti-depressants is taking a toll. What have they done to our bodies? And how do we navigate that trade-off between body and mind? Is it clear that they even work?
Saturday, August 17, 2019, 3:00pm
If you don’t know someone with memory loss, you will. Alzheimer’s disease is at epidemic levels and increasing, so we focus on novel ways of connecting, without memory. Music, art and storytelling are revolutionizing the way we care for memory patients -- and leading to new discoveries about the nature of memory.
Sunday, August 18, 2019, 1:00pm
Modern anti-depressants have saved a lot of minds. And lives. But our 30-year experiment with modern anti-depressants is taking a toll. What have they done to our bodies? And how do we navigate that trade-off between body and mind? Is it clear that they even work?
Saturday, August 17, 2019, 3:00pm
If you don’t know someone with memory loss, you will. Alzheimer’s disease is at epidemic levels and increasing, so we focus on novel ways of connecting, without memory. Music, art and storytelling are revolutionizing the way we care for memory patients -- and leading to new discoveries about the nature of memory.
Friday, August 16, 2019, 5:50pm
"To the Best of Our Knowledge" producer Shannon Henry Kleiber shares a story about her mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease two years ago, and the power of music.
Friday, August 16, 2019, 10:00am
Anne Basting uses the arts, including theater, music and storytelling, as ways to communicate with and heal older people. Basting has found asking people with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia "beautiful questions" — open-ended queries rather than pointed yes or no questions that require remembering something specific — can create powerful connections.
Sunday, August 11, 2019, 1:00pm
Disgust is such a powerful emotion, and so easily evoked. A single disgusting word or image can make most anyone feel queasy, but it also turns out to be a powerful driver of human behavior, influencing everything from who you love to who you'll vote for. We delve into the new science of revulsion.
Thursday, August 15, 2019, 9:50am
When Thomas Page McBee entered the ring, he became the first trans man to ever box at Madison Square Garden. At the time, he didn’t even know this was a barrier he had broken.
Saturday, August 10, 2019, 3:00pm
What makes someone want to walk into a ring and hit someone? Choose to take a punch? Why men — and women — fight. And why so many of us like to watch.
Sunday, August 11, 2019, 1:00pm
Disgust is such a powerful emotion, and so easily evoked. A single disgusting word or image can make most anyone feel queasy, but it also turns out to be a powerful driver of human behavior, influencing everything from who you love to who you'll vote for. We delve into the new science of revulsion.
Saturday, August 10, 2019, 3:00pm
What makes someone want to walk into a ring and hit someone? Choose to take a punch? Why men — and women — fight. And why so many of us like to watch.
Friday, August 9, 2019, 5:20pm
"To the Best of Our Knowledge" Producer Charles Monroe-Kane on how the boxing world has sidestepped brain injury in the ring.
Sunday, August 4, 2019, 1:00pm
From our narrow vantage point on Earth, how can we see what's out there, beyond our skies?
Saturday, August 3, 2019, 3:00pm
We’ve been taught to ignore, stifle, or just get over anger for many years — but what if we embraced it? It seems like most of us are feeling angry these days. But what if we took that emotion and instead of letting it eat us up, used it as fuel to do something, to actually help us feel better?
Wednesday, August 7, 2019, 12:20pm
In a conversation from 2003 with "To the Best of Our Knowledge," Toni Morrison reflected on how the civil rights movement had the unintended consequence of magnifying class differences.
Sunday, August 4, 2019, 1:00pm
From our narrow vantage point on Earth, how can we see what's out there, beyond our skies?
