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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalogue, says it's time to get pragmatic about managing climate change.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anousheh Ansari became the first Muslim woman to venture into space when she traveled aboard the International Space Station.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Noted nature writer Terry Tempest Williams knows that the woods can be frightening, if you go walking in them with the wrong person.  She tells the story of how she narrowly escaped a brutal attack while hiking.

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Svetlana Boym tells Anne Strainchamps that nostalgia was invented in the 17th century and seen as an actual physical condition for the next century of so.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Some of us think of dance as something best left to the professionals, people with years of training and technique. But when Sally Gross started dancing, she realized that she'd never master ballet or modern dance. So she made a whole new kind of dance...

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Why are millions of British TV viewers obsessed with the Danish TV show The Killing?  And will Americans ever get to see the original?  We catch up with the show's creator, Danish writer/director Soren Sveistrup. 

 

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Sherry Simpson is the executive producer of the documentary film, “Amandla,” which tells the story of the South African freedom struggle through its music.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams is a young writer who grew up listening to hip hop, but lost touch with the culture upon entering college.

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