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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Sunday
6/20/2010
12:00 PM
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Noam Chomsky once urged intellectuals “to speak the truth and expose lies.” After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, what is the responsibility of intellectuals? We’ll ask Noam Chomsky, Christopher Hitchens, and others.
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Sunday
6/20/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a father tells us what he and his son learned about life from watching movies together. Also, a mother on how video games can teach children.
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Sunday
6/13/2010
12:00 PM
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After noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we're obsessed with authenticity...just consider the mantra of hip hop, “keeping it real.”
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Sunday
6/13/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the remarkable saga of a group of Christian and Muslim women in Liberia, who banded together to bring down their corrupt and violent president.
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Sunday
6/6/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we take you to the cutting edge of psychedelic research.
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Sunday
6/6/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, exploring life inside America’s new rootless professional class.
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Sunday
5/30/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we try out some new words from the online world with a New York Times language blogger... words like "YakkaWow" and "suicide cuisine." Also, the rise of a new world language called Globish.
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Sunday
5/30/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how well have journalists covered the war? Can embedded journalists accurately report on the very soldier or Marine who protects them?
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Sunday
5/23/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we explore our enduring fascination with the afterlife by talking with Lisa Miller, the author of "Heaven." Also, a very brief history of eternity.
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Sunday
5/23/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with Iraq War veterans about the challenges of coming home. And, what about us? Are WE ready for THEM?
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Sunday
5/16/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, find out how the Ice Age gave birth to the first Modern Humans. And, the real secret of evolution... cooking.
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Sunday
5/16/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, "esprit de corps" (eh-SPREE- duh-CORE), the glue that holds the U.S. military together. "Esprit de Corps" is Part Three of the series, "Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq".
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Sunday
5/9/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, myths and legends about magic and witchcraft... and forgotten fairy tales.
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Sunday
5/9/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with the planners of the Iraq War. Will their preparations lead us to peace or … more war? "Architects of War" is Part Two of "Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq".
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Sunday
5/2/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, an argument in favor of the radically local life. Living small and liking it.
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Sunday
5/2/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, April 6, 2004... a day that transformed the war in Iraq. It’s Part One of "Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq".
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Sunday
4/25/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, healing stories from far off the beaten path, including... a cancer vaccine?
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Sunday
4/25/2010
1:00 PM
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After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the unique ways people learn what they have to know. We’ll also take a hard look at IQ and its relationship to race and class, and consider why dyslexia can be a gift.
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Sunday
4/18/2010
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with rocker Patti Smith about her remarkable new memoir, as well as talk with novelist Ian McEwan about today's literary world.
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Sunday
4/18/2010
1:00 PM
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After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, what made Robert Palmer such a great music critic. Also...John Mendelssohn on his double-life as music critic and singer.
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Sunday
4/11/2010
12:00 PM
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After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at what can happen when you stay positive. Michael Gates Gill reminds us we have a lot to be grateful for, and Suzan Colon shares recipes of the food that got her family through hard times.
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Sunday
4/11/2010
1:00 PM
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Wicked plants, after one on To the Best of Our Knowledge. Also, the guerrilla gardening movement and the Garden of Cosmic Speculation.
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Sunday
4/4/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, writers on writing. Jane Hamilton was inspired by a writing workshop she taught on a cruise – that she hated. And, why would a rock star write a novel? Find out from bad seed Nick Cave.
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Sunday
4/4/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, constructing a sense-of-place. Lessons in the new localism. And, a history of walking.
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Sunday
3/28/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, stories from the lands of snow and ice. What do we stand to lose when the world's ice melts?
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Sunday
3/28/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll explore the world of karaoke (CARE-ee-OH-key). We’ll experience live-band karaoke with The Gomers... it gives people the chance to be a rock star for five minutes
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Sunday
3/21/2010
12:00 PM
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For decades it remained the most famous unpublished book in the history of psychology. Carl Jung (YOUNG) refused to publish it during his lifetimes, and his heirs kept it locked up after he died. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why the just-published legendary “Red Book” by Carl Jung's (YOUNG) will change our thinking about Carl Jung.
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Sunday
3/21/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how discoveries were made about the human brain long before science, as we explore the cultures of arts and science.
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Sunday
3/14/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, meet Aubrey de Grey, a maverick English scientist who’s identified seven major kinds of molecular and cellular damage. He thinks we can prevent all these natural cases of death and thereby extend our lives indefinitely.
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Sunday
3/14/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore the life and work of John Cheever with his biographer, Blake Bailey. Also, the playful, postmodern fiction of Donald Barthelme.
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Sunday
3/7/2010
12:00 PM
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Mary Karr is a best-selling writer, a mother... and an alcoholic. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Karr talks about her journey from addiction to awe.
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Sunday
3/7/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Anne D. LeClaire talks about her decision to remain silent for two days every month.
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Sunday
2/28/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, some of the best interviews of the past year.
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Sunday
2/28/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, more of the best interviews of the past year.
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Sunday
2/21/2010
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Henry Alford shares some age-old wisdom he received. Also, David Greenberger and the art he creates out of his conversations with older people.
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Sunday
2/21/2010
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll meet Michael Schaffer. He’s been investigating the new dog-friendly America. And we’ll get a visit from the Dog Whisperer... Cesar Millan talks about being Pack Leader.
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