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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

Sophy Burnham tells one of the stories from her "Book of Angels." This one's about two "businessmen" who appear just in time to stop a runaway wheelchair.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There's a great urbanization afoot in China. The government plans to move more than 100 million people into cities by 2020. But there's an old divide between rural and urban citizens. What happens when they become neighbors?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Around the country Governors of both parties are balancing their state budgets by making public sector employees pay more. Why?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three "violence interrupters" who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once doled out. They believe that violence spreads like an infectious diseases, so the treatment should be similar: stop the infection at its source.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Do you believe in love at first sight? 

James Bennett says he experienced... well... something like it. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The contemporary art world was shocked in 2010 when the prestigious Turner prize went to a voice installation, the work of the Scottish artist Susan Philipsz.

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