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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Sunday
12/4/2011
12:00 PM
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Deep Blue Sea
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we explore the mysteries of the deep. We'll hear about the oceans' oddest creatures . . . and why they matter.
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Sunday
12/4/2011
1:00 PM
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After the Violence
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, cognitive scientist Steve Pinker boldly says humans aren't getting more violent, in fact, we may be living in the most peaceful time in human history.
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Sunday
11/27/2011
12:00 PM
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Questioning Democracy
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Whose democracy is it? A fair question? Or an unpatriotic one? In Part Four of our special series Democracy: A Short History of a Big Idea, we question the very meaning of democracy, with poets and theologians, jazz musicians, and even exiled dictators. It's Questioning Democracy in this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Sunday
11/27/2011
1:00 PM
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Giving It Away
"Gifts make slaves, like whips make dogs" is a saying from Greenland's Inuit culture. When someone gives you a gift, does it leave you feeling... grateful? Uncomfortable? Indebted? Giving It Away...after one on To the Best of Our Knowledge.
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Sunday
11/20/2011
12:00 PM
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Living Democracy
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad risks his life to play music in the Islamic world. Azar Nafisi risked jail time in Tehran by leading a book club that read "Lolita." Ward Cunningham created the wiki, and did it for free. In Part Three of our special series Democracy: A Short History of a Big Idea, it's Living Democracy in this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Sunday
11/20/2011
1:00 PM
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The Uses of Enchantment
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, writers Neil Gaiman, A.S. Byatt and Salman Rushdie tell us why we need magic.
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Sunday
11/13/2011
12:00 PM
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Writing Democracy
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, in Part Two of our special series, "Democracy: A Short History of a Big Idea," we talk democracy and literature. Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. V.S. Naipul won in 2001. But they're something else - they're political.
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Sunday
11/13/2011
1:00 PM
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Why Do We Love Sad Songs?
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore our love of sad music. We'll look into the effects the minor third has on our brains, and we'll delve into the saddest music ever written: Barber's Adagio for Strings.
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Sunday
11/6/2011
12:00 PM
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Demanding Democracy
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we talk democracy with some of the people who are demanding it. It's part one of our series "Democracy: A Short History of a Big Idea."
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Sunday
11/6/2011
1:00 PM
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Nature Writing
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about the new Nature writing. And we meet renowned poet Gary Snyder.
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Sunday
10/30/2011
12:00 PM
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Horror
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore the philosophy of horror. Also, the celebrated film director John Landis on movie monsters.
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Sunday
10/30/2011
1:00 PM
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Red Tooth, Red Claw
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we come face to face with nature in full force.
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Sunday
10/23/2011
12:00 PM
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How to Fail
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how to fail. We'll talk with comedian Marc Maron (MAIR-in) about the hit podcast that saved his career and maybe his life.
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Sunday
10/23/2011
1:00 PM
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Tranforming Traditions
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how some traditions endure, and other's transform, in Asia's changing landscape.
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Sunday
10/16/2011
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Writing War Fiction.
Sometimes the truth about war isn't a headline in the newspaper or an in-depth report on the radio. Sometimes, it takes fiction to tell the truth. A look at this year's best new novels about war.
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Sunday
10/16/2011
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, You Are What You Read.
Concerned that your family never spends time together as a family? Sure, everyone is connected by technology. But are you connected to each other?
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Sunday
10/9/2011
12:00 PM
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Upcycling
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we explore the new world of upcycling, from the scavenger life of a do-it-yourselfer . . . to the second life of garbage.
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Sunday
10/9/2011
1:00 PM
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The Universe
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll tackle the big questions about the universe. When and how did the universe begin? Why is there something rather than nothing?
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Sunday
10/2/2011
12:00 PM
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Rerun Culture
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Rerun Culture. Tribute albums, reunion tours and mash-ups. If pop culture's all about the new, why is there so much wallowing in our immediate past? Is this retromania a death knell for our own originality and distinctiveness?
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Sunday
10/2/2011
1:00 PM
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But is it Science?
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Is It Science? We'll explore the edges of science, and hear about the hippie scientists who saved physics, or at least made it fun again, and got the C-I-A to pay for their research on E-S-P.
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Sunday
9/25/2011
12:00 PM
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The Language of Science of Fiction
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, The Language of Science Fiction. China Mieville's (Me AY vill's) new novel, Embassytown, features sentient beings famous for their unique language and a woman who's a living simile. Ursula K. LeGuin says that Embassytown is "a fully achieved work of art."
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Sunday
9/25/2011
1:00 PM
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Cultural Commons
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Cultural Commons. Is there such a thing as true, original creativity? Or are we just seeing further by standing on the shoulders of giants?, to paraphrase Sir Isaac Newton. Steven Johnson will tell us about the natural history of innovation. And Lewis Hyde offers a way to look beyond today's narrow debates over cultural ownership.
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Sunday
9/18/2011
12:00 PM
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Integration Stories
In the four decades since the Civil Rights movement, few would say African Americans are now fully integrated or assimilated. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Integration Stories. African American writers talk about race, and how black history continues to shape our racial conversation today.
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Sunday
9/18/2011
1:00 PM
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Mysteries of Childhood
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Mysteries of Childhood. Alex Rider, Nancy Drew, The Cat in the Hat, and Harold and the Purple Crayon are some of the most imaginative and mysterious stories around. But it turns out the authors sometimes have their own, personal mysteries to share. A conversation with author Anthony Horowitz, creator of the Alex Rider series, about his complicated past.
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Sunday
9/11/2011
12:00 PM
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Inside the Mind of a Human Bomb
After twelve- noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, "Inside the Mind of a Human Bomb"
Ten years after the War on Terror began, militant Islamic teenagers are still blowing themselves up in crowded streets. What makes someone willing to become a human bomb? A look at how religious radicalization works, and new techniques for reprogramming jihadist children.
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Sunday
9/4/2011
12:00 PM
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Information
We've all heard we live in "the information age," but what does this mean? After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll give you a short history of Information . . . from talking drums onward. And we'll hear how information overload is actually re-wiring our brains.
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Sunday
9/4/2011
1:00 PM
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Telling the Difficult Story
She was kidnaped by Marxist rebels in Columbia while in the midst of her presidential campaign. During six and a half years of captivity her greatest fear was not death. It was losing her humanity. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Ingrid Betancourt on faith, hope, and love.
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Sunday
8/28/2011
12:00 PM
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Bees
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Bees. A peek inside their world, from the once-in-a-lifetime mating flight of the queen bee, to the California almond agri-business, where most of the bees in North America go to work. And, the poetry of bees.
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Sunday
8/28/2011
1:00 PM
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Can Science Be Sacred?
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, "Science and the Search for Meaning: Five Questions - Part 5: Can Science be Sacred?" The search for a science-based spirituality.
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Sunday
8/21/2011
12:00 PM
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Theme Parks
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Theme Parks. Also, getting high at Disney World.
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Sunday
8/21/2011
1:00 PM
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Can Islam and Science Coexist?
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, can Islam and Science Coexist? A look at the challenges facing Muslim scientists.
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Sunday
8/14/2011
12:00 PM
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The Creative Mind
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, The Creative Mind. What goes on inside the mind of a painter, or a musician, or a poet? What sparks creativity? New neuroscience takes us inside the creative mind.
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Sunday
8/14/2011
1:00 PM
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Does the Soul Still Matter?
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Does the Soul Still Matter? We'll explore the question with scientists and philosophers.
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Sunday
8/7/2011
12:00 PM
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Waiting for the Apocalypse
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Waiting for the Apocalypse. A conversation with renowned religious historian Elaine Pagels about the lasting impact of the Book of Revelation. And, a look into the real history of the Mayan calendar. Also, a sobering look at the threat of nuclear war.
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Sunday
8/7/2011
1:00 PM
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What Does Evolution Want?
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: What Does Evolution Want? A conversation with maverick paleontologist Simon Conway Morris.
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Sunday
7/31/2011
12:00 PM
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Trickster
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Trickster mythology. Lewis Hyde talks about his book, "Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art." This classic text introduces us to the playful and disruptive side of imagination embodied in trickster mythology.
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