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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Filmmaker Marina Lutz had little privacy growing up, Her father captured every piece of her life, from the mundane to the intimate, on film. Later, she rediscovered the footage and assembled it into her award-winning documentary “The Marina Experiment." 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stewart Lee Allen explains why the ancient Greeks wouldn’t eat beans, how Spanish Christians began the tradition of eating ham for Easter, and what he’d serve at a dinner dedicated to the Seven Deadly Sins.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A darkly comic debut novel explores the secretive world of industrial flavor manufacturers.  Stephan Eirik Clark skewers the food industry, flavor science, and the American way of life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Do tests such as the SAT and ACT offer a complete picture of a student's abilities? Psychologist Robert Sternberg doesn't think so. He tells Anne Strainchamps that we need to change the way we evaluate students, starting with college entrance exams.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dan Lyons was a magazine writer and the technology editor at Newsweek. But one Friday morning, he found out that he'd lost his job. He was 50 with a wife and two kids. What was he going to do?  And then he had an idea -- since he had so much experience reporting on Silicon Valley and the tech explosing, why not join it? So Dan scored a gig with HubSpot, a Boston start-up flush with 100 million dollars in venture capital.  It was an experience, to say the least.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Karl Marlantes served in the Marines in Vietnam, so he knows first hand what it means to go to war.  He talks with Jim Fleming about what we get right in training our soldiers, and what we get wrong when they come home.  This is an uncut version of the interview.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There’s been a pandemic or a nuclear war. Most of humanity is wiped out.  Armed vigilantes steal your stuff and eat your family.  The good news is, you can survive all this!  If you have “the Knowledge.”  

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Famous for its hot tubs and its yoga and massage workshops, Esalen Institute actually began as a place to explore the underlying philosophy of spiritual experience, and then popularized America's particular brand of "spirituality without religion." Sitting on the deck of Murphy House at Esalen, Steve Paulson talks with co-founder Michael Murphy and comparative religion scholar Jeffrey Kripal, author of the definitive history of Esalen.

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