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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Sunday
12/19/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Every day we are subjected to a relentless surge of information and facts, and the experience tends to shut down our sense of wonder. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how can we restore our sense of delight and mystery? Writers Neil Gaiman, A.S. Byatt and Salman Rushdie tell us why we need magic.
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Sunday
12/12/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the challenges facing Muslim scientists. Islamic culture was once the center of the scientific world. Today the Islamic world lags far behind the West in science and technology. What happened?
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Sunday
12/12/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, exploring our love of sad music. A 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
12/5/2010
12:00 PM
101205A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Does the soul still matter? We’ve been told the soul is what makes each of us unique. But many scientists now say the soul is just an outdated myth, an idea that can be explained away by new insights from neuroscience and evolutionary biology.
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Sunday
12/5/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll hear NPR’s Scott Simon rhapsodize about his two adopted daughters from China. And we’ll learn how it takes a whole family to fight one member’s anorexia.
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Sunday
11/28/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge talks with maverick paleontologist Simon Conway Morris, to explore the question “What does evolution want?”
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Sunday
11/28/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge explores the high price we’re paying for living in “The Age of Cheap.” Also, “Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays.”
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Sunday
11/21/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, To the Best of Our Knowledge speaks with with James Lovelock about his Gaia theory, to explore the question, "What is Life?" It’s Part One of a new series from To the Best of Our Knowledge, called "Science and the Search for Meaning: Five Questions."
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Sunday
11/21/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, exploring 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
11/14/2010
12:00 PM
101114A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, African American writers talk about race. And how black history... from segregation... to the Great Migration... to the culture of hip hop... continues to shape our racial conversation today.
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Sunday
11/14/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash talks about following in the footsteps of her father, country music icon, Johnny Cash... and how she found her own artistic voice. Also, Rob Sheffield talks about “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran.”
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Sunday
11/7/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, telling The Difficult Story.
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Sunday
11/7/2010
1:00 PM
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After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, exploring the nature of reality.
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Sunday
10/31/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, exploring magic. From tales of the paranormal to the mathematics behind magic ricks. A stage magician-turned-mathematician explores the mysteries of probability. And, a Harry Potter story for grown-ups – Lev Grossman reads from his new novel The Magicians.
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Sunday
10/31/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we get to know a few autistic people with Asperger’s Syndrome. We’ll hear what it’s like to try to live in the world when you have visionary technical abilities but also the social skills of a rock. Also, Oliver Sacks will tell us about the human brain and music.
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Sunday
10/24/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll explore the question of where good ideas come from. 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
10/24/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we come face-to-face with nature in full-force.
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Sunday
10/17/2010
12:00 PM
101017A
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Concerned that your family never spends time together as a family? Sure, everyone is connected. There are computers all over the house and veryone has a cell phone, but are you connected to each other? After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, meet William Powers. He has a remedy for family-disconnect he calls "The Internet Sabbath".
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Sunday
10/17/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with tennis great Andre Agassi (AHN-dray AG-uh-see) about the fine line between love and hate.
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Sunday
10/10/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a special program for the W-P-R Fall Fund Drive.... some of our best interviews from the past year.
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Sunday
10/10/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a special program for the W-P-R Fall Fund Drive... some of our best interviews from the past year.
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Sunday
10/3/2010
12:00 PM
101003A
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, listen-in on the soundtrack to war and peace. From Andalusia... to East LA... to Sierra Leone. Plus, the politics behind Beethoven’s Ninth.
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Sunday
10/3/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with Anthony Horowitz, the creator of the Alex Rider series, about his complicated past. Michael Chabon talks about some of the stories that shaped his childhood. And we’ll hear about the radical political origins of some of best known children’s books.
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Sunday
9/26/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, To the Best of Our Knowledge tackles the big questions about the universe - from Stephen Hawking’s latest ideas about parallel universes and theories of everything, to the quantum physics of everyday life.
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Sunday
9/26/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, join To the Best of Our Knowledge, for a summery special filled with the sounds of the wild. Grab your butterfly net and your binoculars, to see the world around you in a whole new way.
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Sunday
9/19/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with Gaia (gah-EE-ah) theorist James Lovelock and Whole Earth Catalogue founder Stewart Brand.
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Sunday
9/19/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, channeling creativity, whether we play the piano, plan advertising campaigns, or keep a journal. And a visit with a rock n’ roll muse.
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Sunday
9/12/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Lewis Hyde introduces us to the playful and disruptive side of imagination embodied in Trickster mythology.
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Sunday
9/12/2010
1:00 PM
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His hyper-intimate, cerebral writing style and his witty, sincere persona helped make him a spokesperson for his generation. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll consider the life of American author David Foster Wallace.
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Sunday
9/5/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, SuperHeroes. We’ll celebrate Wonder Woman’s 70th birthday with a look at her controversial new costume. We’ll also explore the actual physics of superpowers. And, “The 99” – an Islamic comic book in which each superhero reflects one of the ninety-nine names of Allah.
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Sunday
9/5/2010
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how we’re becoming more and more like corporations. Also, the satisfactions and challenges of working with your hands.
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Sunday
8/29/2010
12:00 PM
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New research is challenging some of our most trusted advice about running and exercise. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, re-thinking running. Also, the barefoot revolution.
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Sunday
8/29/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a visit to our national parks, what filmmaker Ken Burns calls “America’s best idea.”
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Sunday
8/22/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the life and work of Richard Yates, “America’s finest forgotten author.” Also, Jonathan Lethem (LEE-them) on the legendary science-fiction author, Philip K. Dick.
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Sunday
8/22/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, losing religion. A conversation with best-selling author Rhoda Janzen about growing up Mennonite. And, Philip Pullman on being an atheist... and religious... all at the same time.
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Sunday
8/15/2010
12:00 PM
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The Internet is a free flow of ideas where everyone can say whatever they want. But for all its splashy graphics, it’s a computer font that makes the Internet look the same. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the designer of the Internet font Verdana. Also, the creators of Obama’s font, Gotham... The font of Hope and Change.
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