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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Paulson talks with Sharyn November, senior editor for Viking Children's Books and head of Penguin Putnam's Firebird, about the current boom in children's fantasy writing.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

TTBOOK host Anne Strainchamps reading a portion of the poem "A Brave and Startling Truth" by the late Maya Angelou.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thomas Pakenham’s passion for trees has led him all over the world.  He tells Anne Strainchamps that trees can be majestic, sacred, and haunting.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

It’s hard to wrap your head around climate change. How do you really take in the concept of planetary change over decades or even centuries? Visual artist Kambui Olujimi explores different ideas about time in his one-man show “Zulu Time.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jules Pretty spent a year circumnavigating England's southeastern coast on foot.  He discovered tidal paths, secret roads, and beaches covered in tiny fragments of 18th century human bones.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Comedian and writer Tony Hawks conceived the daft idea of hitch-hiking around Ireland with a small refrigerator.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ever feel overwhelmed by digital technology? You're not alone. Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff says it's changing our relationship to time, and we're having trouble adapting.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Physicist Ronald Mallet tells Anne Strainchamps why he thinks he can use light to bend the fabric of space and achieve time travel.

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