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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

“To the Best of Our Knowledge” is a Peabody award-winning national public radio show that explores big ideas and beautiful questions. Deep interviews with philosophers, writers, artists, scientists, historians and others help listeners find new sources of meaning, purpose and wonder in daily life. Whether it’s about bees, poetry, skin or psychedelics, every episode is an intimate, sound-rich journey into open-minded, open-hearted conversations. Warm and engaging, TTBOOK helps listeners feel less alone and more connected — to our common humanity and to the world we share.

TTBOOK is produced in Madison, Wisconsin at Wisconsin Public Radio, and is part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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The Ideas Network, Saturdays, 3 p.m to 4 p.m., Sundays, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., NPR News & Music, Saturdays and Sundays, 6 a.m. to 7 a.m.

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    We’ve all been there, that place where we feel hope slipping away. Maybe we’ve even lost hope. This hour we talk with people who’ve turned that around and made hope real, whether it’s through political activism, faith, music, or reading a life-changing novel.

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    Sometimes, the strongest and most courageous thing you can do is walk away.

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  • Hope: Where Does It Come From?

    Is hope something we’re innately born with, or something we can choose to have? We talk with people who tell us where they think hope lives in ourselves and our communities.

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    Are you ready to think in centuries instead of seconds? Eons instead of hours? It’s time to make thousand-year plans and appreciate how Earth keeps time. 

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  • Being Sincere in a Cynical World

    Why is the world so damn cynical? Rather than surrendering to corrosive, hopeless snark, we look to some unexpected sources — video games, the lives lead by those who leave hate groups, and the optimism of the Afrofuturist art and culture movement — to make the case for sincerity.

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