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To the Best of Our Knowledge
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11/18/2012
1:00 PM
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The 51%
Do we still need feminism when, according to one journalist, we're witnessing the decline of men and the ascendance of women? There's been a hot spotlight shining down on women this past year.
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Sunday
11/11/2012
12:00 PM
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Memory and Forgetting
In part two of our series, Meet Your Mind, we explore the art of memory, and the business of forgetting.
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Sunday
11/11/2012
1:00 PM
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Surrounded by Sound
Bernie Krause shares some of his wild soundscape recordings, many of which no longer exist in nature.
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Sunday
11/4/2012
12:00 PM
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Mind and Brain
The science of consciousness. With a hundred billion neurons and trillions of synapses, the human brain is the most complex object ever found in the universe. So far no one knows how this tangle of neurons produces . . . us.
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Sunday
11/4/2012
1:00 PM
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Presidents
The meeting grounds of compassion and medicine.
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Sunday
10/28/2012
12:00 PM
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Ghost Stories
Ghost stories.
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Sunday
10/28/2012
1:00 PM
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Horror
Exploring the philosophy of horror. Also, celebrated film director John Landis on movie monsters.
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Sunday
10/21/2012
12:00 PM
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City living
What we know about cities, and how to live well in them.
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Sunday
10/21/2012
1:00 PM
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Giving it Away
Giving It Away. When someone gives you a gift, does it leave you feeling: grateful? Uncomfortable? Indebted?
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Sunday
10/14/2012
12:00 PM
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Under Your Skin
The tattoo as art form. Do you have a tattoo? Forty percent of Americans between the ages of 30 and 40 do. In many cities there are tattoo parlors everywhere. What's most popular? Quotes from great works of literature.
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Sunday
10/14/2012
1:00 PM
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Thinking About Thinking
Why we think the way we think. Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel laureate psychologist. So he's the perfect person to give us a new way of thinking about thinking, which is exactly what he does in his new book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow."
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Sunday
10/7/2012
12:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Creativity Pledge
Stories about inspiration and art-making as we hope to inspire you to support public radio
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Sunday
10/7/2012
1:00 PM
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TTBOOK - Radio Stories
Some of the show's favorite interviews about public radio, including Fresh Air host Terry Gross, This American Life creator and host Ira Glass, and StoryCorp founder David Isay. Plus, naturalist, author and scriptwriter Sy Montgomery talks about remarkable octopus intelligence.
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Sunday
9/30/2012
12:00 PM
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What We Believe
What Mormons believe. The "Mormon moment" has arrived. There's the smash Broadway musical, "The Book of Mormon"; Latter-Day Saints member Stephenie Meyer's phenomenally successful "Twilight" series of books and films; and Mitt Romney's bid for the White House. But how much do we really know about the Mormon faith?
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Sunday
9/30/2012
1:00 PM
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How We Fail
How to fail. The mantra we tell ourselves most of the time in life is "don't mess up". But what if we should fail? Just fail . . . better? A conversation with comedian Marc Maron (MAIR-in) about the hit podcast that saved his career . . . and maybe his life.
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Sunday
9/23/2012
12:00 PM
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The new alone
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the new alone. Also, why living alone is the new luxury choice, and may make people more socially outgoing. And, we'll hear arguments in favor of the uncoupled.
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Sunday
9/23/2012
1:00 PM
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Making Magic
Albert Einstein said "there are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll feed your sense of the miraculous and magical with stories from writers who find magic everywhere - even in science.
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Sunday
9/16/2012
12:00 PM
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Writing Nature
We'll talk about the new nature writing and meet renowned poet Gary Snyder, in this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge.
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Sunday
9/16/2012
1:00 PM
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Rerun Culture
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, Simon Reynolds joins us to talk about his book, "Retromania." Is this retromania a death knell for our own originality and distinctiveness?
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Sunday
9/9/2012
12:00 PM
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Privacy
We explore social networks . . . and the death of privacy.
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Sunday
9/9/2012
1:00 PM
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The Language of Science Fiction
The language of Science Fiction.
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Sunday
9/2/2012
12:00 PM
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But is it science?
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore the edges of science, and hear about the hippie scientists who saved physics, or at least made it fun again, and got the CIA to pay for their research on ESP.
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Sunday
9/2/2012
1:00 PM
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Questioning Democracy
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we question the very meaning of democracy, with poets and theologians, jazz musicians, and even exiled dictators.
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Sunday
8/26/2012
12:00 PM
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Cross Talk
Wandering the unmarked maps of cultural translation, from Japanese pop culture, to fusion food, to stories from the Talmud.
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Sunday
8/26/2012
1:00 PM
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Living Democracy
Living democracy. Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad risks his life to play music in the Islamic world. Azar Nafisi risked jail time in Tehran by lead a book club that read "Lolita." Ward Cunningham created the wiki, and did it for free.
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Sunday
8/19/2012
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Celebrating British mathematician Alan Turing, the driving force behind modern computers.
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Sunday
8/19/2012
1:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
Democracy and literature.
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Sunday
8/12/2012
12:00 PM
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Competition for Sport
On To the Best of Our Knowledge, some of our favorite sports interviews. With the Olympics on hand, we focus on the spirit of competition.
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Sunday
8/12/2012
1:00 PM
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Demanding Democracy
On To the Best of Our Knowledge, talking democracy with some people demanding it, even though they disagree on what they hope to accomplish with it.
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Sunday
8/5/2012
12:00 PM
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Born to Run
The story of John Carlos and the 1968 Olympics. Also the evolution of the "the runner's high."
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Sunday
8/5/2012
1:00 PM
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Information
A short history of information: from the talking drums of Africa . . . and the invention of writing . . . all the way to modern information theory. But, do we now have TOO MUCH information? We'll hear how information overload is actually re-wiring our brains.
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Sunday
7/29/2012
12:00 PM
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Memes
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the world of memes - units of culture that are copied from one brain to another. Are we all meme machines?
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Sunday
7/29/2012
1:00 PM
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Sport Women
In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, our favorite interviews with women athletes.
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Sunday
7/22/2012
12:00 PM
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Cross Talk
On To the Best of Our Knowledge, Waiting for the Apocalypse.
Apocalyptic thinking is everywhere, from predictions about Christian "end times," to the 2012 Mayan prophecy about the end of the world. So what's going on?
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Sunday
7/22/2012
1:00 PM
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Marshall McLuhan
On To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll explore the big ideas of Marshall McLuhan, as we salute the centenary of his birth.
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Sunday
7/15/2012
12:00 PM
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
My Neighbor's Story. "Good fences make good neighbors," Robert Frost writes in Mending Wall. Is he right?
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