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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Sunday
9/21/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, John Leland on the lessons of "On The Road" and why Jack Kerouac (CARE-oh-wack) still matters.
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Sunday
9/14/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at Boomer Backlash. Are Boomers selfish and materialistic... or iconoclasts who deserve gratitude?
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Sunday
9/14/2008
1:00 PM
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After one on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Tales of Sea Serpents, Lake Monsters, and Abominable Snowmen.... the mythical beasts of folktale and legend, and the modern researchers who are still hunting for them.
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Sunday
9/7/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, examining deja vu (DAY-zjah VOO) and what causes us to think we've already experienced the exact same situation before... even though we haven't.
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Sunday
9/7/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, “learning science.” How NOVA stays up to date, and Newton's laws set to a hip-hop beat.
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Sunday
8/31/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Winston Churchill's biographer Martin Gilbert explains how the man who offered his nation only blood, sweat, toil, and tears made it believe that was enough.
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Sunday
8/31/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll hear the latest science on brain plasticity. Who says you can't teach an old brain new tricks?
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Sunday
8/24/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, dissecting the Sixties... and a conversation with activist Tom Hayden.
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Sunday
8/24/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, “Encountering Islam”. A controversial philosopher who believes Muslims can thrive in secular, Western society, and an equally controversial figure who's living under a death threat... targeted by Islamic radicals. Hear from both of these impassioned activists.
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Sunday
8/17/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Science writer Fred Pearce talks about water... the defining crisis of the twenty-first century.
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Sunday
8/17/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a Pakistani Muslim in the Midwest, and an Indian filmmaker in America... part of a special program, "Culture in the Crossroads."
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Sunday
8/10/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, The Cowboy Junkies look back at "The Trinity Session"... the moment that defined the alt-country movement.
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Sunday
8/10/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with cellist (CHELL-ist) Yo-Yo Ma (yo-yo-MAH) as part of our program “The New Silk Road.”
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Sunday
8/3/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with Salman Rushdie (SAL-muhn ROOSH-dee) about his new book, and explore the surreal musical world of Robert Ellis Orrall as we consider "postmodernism."
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Sunday
8/3/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at how Eastern religions have changed America... and how America is changing them.
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Sunday
7/27/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look inside the music of one of music’s new stars, Josh Ritter.
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Sunday
7/27/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the question, is there an irreconcilable conflict between Islam and the West... a “clash of civilizations”?
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Sunday
7/20/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the re-mix culture. Digital sampling, audio hacking, mash-ups… In today’s music and art it’s all about mix... and remix again.
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Sunday
7/20/2008
1:00 PM
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The entertainment industry is eliminating the gap between real life and fantasy. After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, explore the gray-area where Real Life meets Entertainment.
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Sunday
7/13/2008
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
7/13/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, heroes, anti-heroes, and regular folks strutt their stuff, in a look at different kinds of comic books.
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Sunday
7/6/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation with actor Tim Robbins, who recently staged a theatrical adaptation of “1984" set in our own time. He says the story is more relevant than ever.
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Sunday
7/6/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, on 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
6/29/2008
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.
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Sunday
6/29/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the peak oil crisis. Also, doomsday scenarios from Islam to Christianity.
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Sunday
6/22/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the New Atheism, with Richard Dawkins and two of his critics.
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Sunday
6/22/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the Amish ritual of Rumspringa (ROOM-shpring-uh), a period in adolescence that allows youth to choose baptism within the Amish church or instead leave the community.
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Sunday
6/15/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the "embed" system. How can journalists accurately report on the very soldiers who protect them? Has the U.S. military made the journalist a weapon of war?
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Sunday
6/15/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Susan Orlean (or -LEEN) tells us about some of the Saturday nights she spent with different people across the U.S. ... in an effort to discover the magic and mystique of this night.
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Sunday
6/8/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll meet country singer-songwriter Carlene Carter. Also, the epic life of American music icon Willie Nelson.
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Sunday
6/8/2008
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
6/1/2008
12:00 PM
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Hummingbirds hum and whales sing, after twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge. Join us for a summertime special filled with the sounds of the wild. Grab your butterfly net and your binoculars and we’ll help you see the world around you in a whole new way.
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Sunday
6/1/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, some new ideas about a very old subject... non-violence. And, could non-violence have prevented World War II?
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Sunday
5/25/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the dark side of secrecy... warrantless wiretaps, secret CIA prisons, extraordinary rendition, waterboarding... all wrapped up in a classified Pentagon Black Ops budget worth some 30-billion dollars.
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Sunday
5/25/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, find out how the nerd stereotype is harming children. Also, explore nerdcore hip hop, a new kind of music called Geeksta Rap.
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Sunday
5/18/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the role Israeli writers play in the Middle East Peace Process. Also, America’s role in the area, which goes back to the eighteenth century.
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