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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Sunday
10/4/2009
1:00 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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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Sunday
9/20/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll wax philosophical about science fiction with two of the genre's greatest writers... George R.R. Martin and Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Sunday
9/13/2009
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge: poetry. We’ll talk with four-time Slam Poet champion Patricia Smith about how powerful words are when spoken out loud.
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Sunday
9/13/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we meet the co-founders of The East Village Opera Company; then find out what happens when old-school meets new-school as they re-imagine opera's greatest hits as popular songs.
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Sunday
9/6/2009
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Douglas Rushkoff talks about his new book, “Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back.” Also, Matthew Crawford on the satisfactions and challenges of working with your hands.
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Sunday
9/6/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Al Green talks about the sacred and profane.
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Sunday
8/30/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Religion 2.0 (two-point-oh). Americans are patching together spirituality and faiths from around the world to find something to believe in.
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Sunday
8/30/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, experts warn that reading is in decline as our cultural life moves online. We offer an hour in praise... and defense... of the book.
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Sunday
8/23/2009
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the life and work of David Foster Wallace, whose witty, sincere persona helped make him a spokesperson for his generation.
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Sunday
8/23/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a Harvard-trained brain scientist who suffered a crippling stroke and watched... in clinical detail... what was happening to her own mind and body while she was having it.
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Sunday
8/16/2009
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, remix culture. Digital sampling, audio hacking, mash-ups… In today’s music and art it’s all about mix and remix.
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Sunday
8/16/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, author Andrew Davidson on his novel, "The Gargoyle." It has been described as an "Inferno" for our time
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Sunday
8/9/2009
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a violinist (Anne Akiko Meyers) talks about why she chose to record popular songs for her new album. From Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile” to the tunes her Japanese grandmother used to hum to her.
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Sunday
8/9/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, deja vu. What causes us to think we've already experienced the exact same situation before, even though we haven't?
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Sunday
8/2/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, autistic savant (sah-VAHNT) Daniel Tammet (TAM-ett) explains how his amazing mind works. Also, philosophy professor Ian Hacking on “Humans, Aliens and Autism.”
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Sunday
8/2/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we explore post-modernism. Salman Rushdie (SAL-m'n RUSH-dee) talks about "The Enchantress of Florence".
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Sunday
7/26/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the Cowboy Junkies look back on “The Trinity Sessions,” the moment that defined the alt-country movement.
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Sunday
7/26/2009
1:00 PM
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Today’s entertainment industry is shrinking the gap between real life and fantasy. Popular television shows like Big Brother turn ordinary life into an engaging drama. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, how real is reality entertainment?
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Sunday
7/19/2009
12:00 PM
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Religion was supposed to be dying. But God is making a comeback in countries around the world, from Russia to China to Turkey. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll get the story behind a global revival of faith.
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Sunday
7/19/2009
1:00 PM
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Planning to see the world this summer? Or enjoy the frugal pleasure of a stay-cation? Remember, the best travel isn’t about miles logged... it’s about minds expanded. After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, travel stories. Travel guru Rick Steves develops an unexpected passion for war-torn countries.
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Sunday
7/12/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll explore life inside America’s new rootless professional class. Also, film-maker Guy Maddin talks about his critically-acclaimed documentary about his hometown, “My Winnipeg.”
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Sunday
7/12/2009
1:00 PM
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Anyway you describe it, he has arrived. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll get inside the music of one of music’s new stars Josh Ritter.
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Sunday
7/5/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, re-thinking animal intelligence. Not only are they smarter than we thought... in some cases they’re smarter than us.
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Sunday
7/5/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the front lines of memory research. The good news is that most of us won’t live long enough to get Alzheimer’s. And the rest of us can prevent it by raising our heart rates.
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Sunday
6/28/2009
12:00 PM
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After noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Myths and legends about magic and witchcraft, and forgotten fairy tales - from an animated version of the Ramayana to the dada-ist fairy tales the Nazis tried to burn.
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Sunday
6/28/2009
1:00 PM
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After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the new abolitionists – including a reporter who risked his life to document the global traffic in human beings, and a woman who is free today for the first time in 28 years.
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Sunday
6/21/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, wicked plants. Also, the Guerrilla Gardening movement, and the Garden of Cosmic Speculation.
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Sunday
6/21/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the power of We, and the move toward Collective Identity and Global Think.
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Sunday
6/14/2009
12:00 PM
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President Obama is out to remake America’s relationship with the Islamic world. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, explore what this means for both the Middle East and the U.S. Also, a look at the ongoing debate over Muslim immigration in Europe, and a conversation with a Hollywood screenwriter about his new novel on the Prophet Muhammad and his wife Aisha.
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Sunday
6/14/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, David Gilmour tells us what he and his son learned about life from watching movies together. Also, Katie Salen (SAY-lehn) on how video games can teach children.
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Sunday
6/7/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a blunt question: "did we win the war in Iraq?"
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Sunday
6/7/2009
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Daniel Wolff's list of twelve great Americans and how they learned what they had to know.
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Sunday
5/31/2009
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, why one writer says the feminist movement lost its way and ended up making men the enemy. Is it time to save the males?
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