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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Sunday
6/10/2012
1:00 PM
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Remembering the Civil War
On To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about soldiers' experiences on the battlefield, and their reconciliation afterwards. And the debate about the controversial legacy of abolitionist John Brown.
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Sunday
6/3/2012
12:00 PM
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Re-thinking Education
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, re-thinking education. From college programs for the incarcerated . . . to a call for the end of standardized tests.
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Sunday
6/3/2012
1:00 PM
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Physics & The Big Questions
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Physicist Lawrence Krauss says science can finally explain the age-old mystery: how can something come out of nothing? Or, to be more specific, how the Big Bang could pop out of empty space.
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Sunday
5/27/2012
12:00 PM
120527A
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Sympathy with the Devil
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how do we, as a society, deal with the redemption of our worst? A candid interview with former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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Sunday
5/27/2012
1:00 PM
120527B
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Innovative Fiction
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Innovative Fiction. We'll hear from Helen DeWitt, Mark Leyner, Ryan Boudinot, and more.
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Sunday
5/20/2012
12:00 PM
120520A
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Minding Mortality
After noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how does knowing that you're going to die affect your life? In this hour, we're minding mortality.
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Sunday
5/20/2012
1:00 PM
120520B
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Made in Russia
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore some history, stories and culture from Russia, from ballet to reality TV.
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Sunday
5/13/2012
12:00 PM
120513A
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American Invention
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why isn't America inventing anymore? America is no longer the global innovation giant it once was. Where have you gone, Thomas Edison?
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Sunday
5/13/2012
1:00 PM
120513B
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Brainpower
After one, it's To the Best of Our Knowledge, The Turing Test. It's an annual event in which the most advanced computer programs try to fool a panel of judges into mistaking them for real people. Also, real people compete to try to win the coveted "Most Human Human Award."
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Sunday
5/6/2012
12:00 PM
120506A
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Henry David Thoreau
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the legacy of American author Henry David Thoreau... and why he still inspires us.
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Sunday
5/6/2012
1:00 PM
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Airports
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, writer Alain de Botton (rhymes with bottom) tells us about the week he spent as Heathrow Airport's first writer-in-residence.
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Sunday
4/29/2012
12:00 PM
120429A
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Into the Woods
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we head Into The Woods. Learn how to read a forest. Unlock the meanings hidden in leaf and bole, twig and soil. And celebrate the woods in fairytale, myth, story and song.
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Sunday
4/29/2012
1:00 PM
120429B
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Into the Woods
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how a decision to hike helped Cheryl Strayed to work through her grief and the wreckage of her life.
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Sunday
4/22/2012
12:00 PM
120422A
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Other Worlds
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a visit to other worlds. Scientist Brian Greene looks at the physics of the multiverse, and writer Patrick Rothfuss creates a world of his own.
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Sunday
4/22/2012
1:00 PM
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Memory, Mind and the Self
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with New York Times columnist David Brooks. He says many of our public policies fail because we're not the rational decision makers we think we are. Also, rising jazz star Vijay Iyer on the neuroscience of music.
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Sunday
4/15/2012
12:00 PM
120415A
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Brainstorm
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about the neuroscience of emotion with Richie Davidson. It's now one of the hottest topics in science, and Davidson is famous for his pioneering research on mindfulness.
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Sunday
4/15/2012
1:00 PM
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Mother Issues
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the tricky topic of motherhood. Linda Gray Sexton remembers her mother, the troubled poet Anne Sexton. Jeannette Walls talks about growing up homeless. And Ayelet Waldman explains how being a bad mother, isn't really all that bad.
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Sunday
4/8/2012
12:00 PM
120408A
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Too Much Information?
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how does information become knowledge? There's information everywhere... but do we know any more than we did twenty years ago?
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Sunday
4/8/2012
1:00 PM
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Creative Partnerships
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore creative partnerships, including two of the most influential partners of all time - John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
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Sunday
4/1/2012
12:00 PM
120401A
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Imagination
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll meet the man behind "Uncreative Writing," a class in which students are penalized for showing originality, but rewarded for plagiarism, plundering and stealing.
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Sunday
4/1/2012
1:00 PM
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Pushing the Limits in Film
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, pushing the limits in film with filmaker John Waters. Plus, a conversation with the infamous Winnebago Man . . . the Angriest Man on YouTube.
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Sunday
3/25/2012
12:00 PM
120325A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, guests include poet Molly Peacock, original Beatles drummer Pete Best, and poet-geneticist Scott Topper.
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Sunday
3/25/2012
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, guests include photographer William Christenberry, filmmaker Kyle Haussmann Stokes, and writer/educator Parker Palmer.
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Sunday
3/18/2012
12:00 PM
120318A
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Atheists, Believers & The Secular
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, what atheists can learn from religion, and why novelist Anne Rice left the Catholic church.
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Sunday
3/18/2012
1:00 PM
120318B
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Animals and Us
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why it's so hard to think straight about animals.
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Sunday
3/11/2012
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, are you a scalawag? a rapscallion? a varlet? Join us as we talk "roguish" with an opposition researcher, and the founder of a cult. We'll even go back to The Civil War and find out about the greatest American scoundrel ever.
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Sunday
3/11/2012
1:00 PM
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Kicking Off the Coasts
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, artists speak out about making it in America's heartland, and getting past the gate-keepers on the coasts. What's it like to be creative in the "fly-over" zone?
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Sunday
3/4/2012
12:00 PM
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Philip K. Dick
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll examine the life and work of the legendary science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Described as "one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the twentieth century," we commemorate the 30th anniversary of his death.
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Sunday
3/4/2012
1:00 PM
120304B
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Re-thinking Native Culture
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, it's time to hit the reset button and re-think everything we know about Native American culture.
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Sunday
2/26/2012
12:00 PM
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Seeing and Perceiving
Oliver Sacks can't recognize other people's faces, not even his own when he's looking in the mirror. Sacks is also a neurologist who's fascinated by brain disorders. We'll talk with Sacks and with the painter Chuck Close, who also suffers from face-blindness. After twelve on To the Best of Our knowledge, the many ways of seeing the world.
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Sunday
2/26/2012
1:00 PM
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Graphic Art Grows Up
After one 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
2/19/2012
12:00 PM
120219A
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The Story of You
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, if we are only a collection of stories about ourselves, then, where's the truth? Psychologists, neurologists, artists, and mystics all weigh-in.
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Sunday
2/19/2012
1:00 PM
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How to Disappear Completely
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how to disappear completely. You too can vanish without a trace . . . join us for a crash course. And, the founder of the Federal Witness Protection Program on how the professionals do it.
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Sunday
2/12/2012
12:00 PM
120212A
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Astrobiology
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why astronomers believe that one day soon . . . within a decade . . . you'll wake up to the news of life . . . on another planet.
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Sunday
2/12/2012
1:00 PM
120212B
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Writing Fiction vs Non-Fiction
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we explore the slippery slope between fiction and nonfiction. Also, literary pioneer William Gibson on his discomfort with his nonfiction.
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Sunday
2/5/2012
12:00 PM
120205A
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The Other Money
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, what if there wasn't any money? What would you do?
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