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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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Sunday
5/18/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll meet Patti Boyd, the woman who inspired three of the most famous rock songs of all time, from George Harrison’s “Something” to Eric Clapton’s “Layla.”
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Sunday
5/11/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, stories by, for, and about mothers.
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Sunday
5/11/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, dive into the world of pulp fiction.
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Sunday
5/4/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the rise of the "indie" film. Chris Gore talks about "My Big Fat Independent Movie." And we'll meet a former waitress who spent her life-savings to make a movie about the food service industry.
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Sunday
5/4/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, children's books, for children... and for us.
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Sunday
4/27/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the battle between the Civil Rights generation and the Hip-Hop generation.
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Sunday
4/27/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, "what makes a modern classic?" Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" provides the back-drop.
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Sunday
4/20/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the green revolution that's sweeping America... and the world.
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Sunday
4/20/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, great writers on great books. Conversations with Nobel Laureates Toni Morrison and V.S. Naipaul (NIGH-pawl).
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Sunday
4/13/2008
12:00 PM
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Imagine the world as we know it, only without us. After twelve-noon on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a writer imagines a world reinventing itself without human beings.
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Sunday
4/13/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we get into the fight over genre fiction. And Richard Price talks about his best-selling novel “Lush Life” and why no one will ever mistake it for genre fiction.
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Sunday
4/6/2008
12:00 PM
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Are Americans dumbing down instead of smartening up? After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Susan Jacoby (Ja-KOH-bee) joins us to talk about her book, "The Age of American Unreason."
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Sunday
4/6/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, to breed or not to breed? Stories about birth, adoption, and the childless revolution.
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Sunday
3/30/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon 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
3/30/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, the things people eat for pleasure... from quintuple espresso cheesecake brownies to putrefied shark meat.
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Sunday
3/23/2008
12:00 PM
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There was a time in the Middle Ages when scholars of all religions could meet and discuss in peace. After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about this remarkable culture, with novelist and historian Tariq Ali (Tah-REEK Ah-LEE).
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Sunday
3/23/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Jonathan Lethem (Lee-thuhm) talks about his novel, the story of a Los Angeles alternative-rock band. And the great pub rock revolution.
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Sunday
3/16/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, explore the exotic world of foreign languages. Hear the confessions of a language fanatic. Also, six-word memoirs. "One life. Six words. What's yours?"
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Sunday
3/16/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at age and memory with a Nobel Prize winner searching through the mechanics of the brain.
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Sunday
3/9/2008
12:00 PM
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After twelve-noon, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, learning outside the box. And, redefining normal for kids on the short bus.
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Sunday
3/9/2008
1:00 PM
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After one, on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll talk about doing nothing, as we take an exciting look at boredom.
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