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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Maybe you're not interested in football. Maybe you prefer your Sundays productive or peaceful. If so, then this interview is for you. Here's Craig Harling on Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Computer paswords are on on our minds this week.  "The New York Times" reporter Ian Urbina talks about his feature story, "The Secret Life of Passwords."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tad Pierson runs a tour business called “American Dream Safari.”  He takes his clients on tours of Memphis and into Mississippi in his 1955 Cadillac named Mansfield.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist and poet Ruben Martinez tells Steve Paulson that there are powerful economic incentives for Mexicans to cross the U.S. border to find work.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Literary critic William Gass talks with Steve Paulson about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and explicates a poem of Rilke’s about a bowl of roses.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tom Wolfe talks with Steve Paulson, and explains why he's so fascinated by the connection between sex and social status.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dubbed a secular mosque for the Arab world, the Burj Khalifa dominates the Dubai skyline. As it should: it's by far the tallest building in the world. It's so tall that during Ramadan, Muslims living on higher floors have to break their fast 2 minutes later than those on lower floors because they see the sunset later in the day.

Steve Paulson sat down with legendary architecture critic Paul Goldberger to talk all things Burj Kalifa.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In Sara Gruen's new novel "Ape House," a family of bonobo apes are captured to be the main attraction in a reality TV show.

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