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Sunday
1/24/2010
1:00 PM
 100124B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how is a President supposed to assess the risk of a “dirty bomb,” or weigh the pros and cons of various energy sources, from solar power to nuclear energy? We’ll get a basic primer in physics.

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Sunday
1/17/2010
12:00 PM
 100117A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Karen Armstrong explains why modern ideas about God are so different from what our ancestors thought. (KAH-ren Armstrong)

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Sunday
1/17/2010
1:00 PM
 100117B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, people who hunt and some of their reasons why.

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Sunday
1/10/2010
12:00 PM
 100110A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Great Reads.

Attention all readers of fiction! This is something you really want to hear. This hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge devotes itself to some of the great reads of the last year. Colum McCann talks about his National Book Award-winning novel, and we'll hear from fellow finalist Jayne Anne Phillips. We'll also explore Barcelona, the African immigrant experience and hear about Henry the 8th's "fixer".


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Sunday
1/10/2010
1:00 PM
 100110B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Reality.

It's not quite the Manhattan that we're familiar with. "The New York Times" is available in a "War-Free Edition" and there are rumors of an escaped tiger on the prowl in the Upper East Side. This is the setting of Jonathan Lethem's critically-acclaimed new novel, "Chronic City." In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge , Jonathan Lethem talks about the real and the unreal, as we explore the nature of reality. And we'll look at "The Simulated Universe" Argument. Is this the real life or is this just fantasy?


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Sunday
1/3/2010
12:00 PM
 100103A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: Change Over Time.

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Sunday
1/3/2010
1:00 PM
 100103B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: The Course of Time.

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Sunday
12/27/2009
12:00 PM
 091227A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the art of "alone time."

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Sunday
12/27/2009
1:00 PM
 091227B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Part Four of Future Perfect: Dreamers, Schemers, and Visonaries. Today's topic: Our Peace of Mind.

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Sunday
12/20/2009
12:00 PM
 091220A

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 tricks. A stage magician-turned-mathematician explores the mysteries of probability.

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Sunday
12/20/2009
1:00 PM
 091220B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, pondering world economics.

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Sunday
12/13/2009
12:00 PM
 091213A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the fine line between love and hate... a conversation with tennis great Andre Agassi (AHN-dray AG-ah-see).

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Sunday
12/13/2009
1:00 PM
 091213B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, visionaries. It’s not hard to see why economics is called “the dismal science” but it does have its visionaries... like Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman... and fellow Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who’s started a new kind of bank that lends money to the very poor.

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Sunday
12/6/2009
12:00 PM
 091206A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, remember Kyoto? Now it’s the Copenhagen climate-change summit. The UN’s current treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, was never ratified by the US. A conversation with Gaia (GUY-ya) theorist James Lovelock and Whole Earth Catalogue founder Stewart Brand.

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Sunday
12/6/2009
1:00 PM
 091206B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, hear one man's plan to bring high-tech opportunity to poor Uraguay. Imagine a poor child in Uruguay... now imagine giving that young girl a hundred-dollar laptop computer. Imagine the educational opportunities this laptop will provide this child. Nicholas Negroponte has this very vision and he's making it a reality throughout the developing world.

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Sunday
11/29/2009
12:00 PM
 091129A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After noon, To the Best of Our Knowledge explores the high price we’re paying for living in “The Age of Cheap.”

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Sunday
11/29/2009
1:00 PM
 091129B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge: food stories.

New York chef Dan Barber faces a moral crisis in the form of a 6,700-pound boar named Boris. The Kitchen Sisters meet a Texan who wants to put a barbecue pit on the moon. And take a trip to the wilds of upper-New York State to catch live eels.


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Sunday
11/22/2009
12:00 PM
 091122A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, “Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq", "Part Five: Coming Home”. Talk with Iraq War veterans about the challenges of coming home. And, what about us? Are WE ready for THEM?

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Sunday
11/22/2009
1:00 PM
 091122B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, talk about 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
11/15/2009
12:00 PM
 091115A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Part Four of “Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq: Covering the War”.

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Sunday
11/15/2009
1:00 PM
 091115B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about debt and runaway capitalism... and the four men who controlled the world’s money supply back in the 1920s.

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Sunday
11/8/2009
12:00 PM
 091108A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
Esprit de corps (ess-SPREE d'CORE) is the glue that holds the U.S. military together. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, "Esprit de Corps" is Part Three of "Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq".

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Sunday
11/8/2009
1:00 PM
 091108B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with Nick Hornby, author of “Juliet, Naked.” Also, American music giant Ralph Stanley looks back on his life and career.

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Sunday
11/1/2009
12:00 PM
 091101A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with the planners of the War in Iraq. 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
11/1/2009
1:00 PM
 091101B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
The Internet is a free flow of ideas where everyone can say whatever they want. But for all its splashy graphics, it’s a font that makes the Internet looks the same. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the designer of Verdana, the Internet font. Also, the creators of Obama’s font, Gotham... The font of Hope and Change.

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Sunday
10/25/2009
12:00 PM
 091025A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Part One of "Boots on the Ground: Stories from the War in Iraq". - - April 6, 2004... a day that transformed the war in Iraq.

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Sunday
10/25/2009
1:00 PM
 091025B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the ethics of foreign aid. Does Western aid to impoverished African nations really help? Some say it just lines the pockets of corrupt leaders and createds a culture of dependency.

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Sunday
10/18/2009
12:00 PM
 091018A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll meet a variety of people dedicated to the well-chosen word... from a woman who worked for thirty years with a grey parrot named Alex... to a linguist who’s fluent in Klingon.

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Sunday
10/18/2009
1:00 PM
 091018B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore the seven-billion-dollar Christian pop culture industry, complete with Bibleman, the Caped Christian who quotes scripture while fighting villains.

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Sunday
10/11/2009
12:00 PM
 091011A

To the Best of Our Knowledge - Web Edition
A look at the impact of Globalization.

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Sunday
10/11/2009
1:00 PM
 091011B

To the Best of Our Knowledge - Web Edition
Contemplating the age-old dream of discovering an Earthly paradise... in search of Shangri-La.

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Sunday
10/4/2009
12:00 PM
 091004A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, America’s small farm renaissance. The lure of the pastoral life and the vision of a new agrarian culture.

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Sunday
10/4/2009
1:00 PM
 091004B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, To the Best of Our Knowledge considers what we mean by the word "craft." Does it mean a hand-made object that's almost art? Or could it be anything that's thoughtfully done to the very best of the doer's ability?

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Sunday
9/27/2009
12:00 PM
 090927A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll take you to the national parks – Yosemite, Denali and Carlsbad Caverns. We’ll also explore some forgotten parts of our history: how the “buffalo soldiers” helped create America’s first parks.

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Sunday
9/27/2009
1:00 PM
 090927B

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the Amish ritual of Rumspringa. (ROOM-shpring-uh) - when 16 year-olds decide about their future.

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Sunday
9/20/2009
12:00 PM
 090920A

To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the fairy-tale story of the game that remade the South African nation – the Rugby World Cup of 1995.

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