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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ryan Boudinot talks to Jim Fleming about his post-apocalyptic novel, "Blueprints of the Afterlife."

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The founder of Storahtelling and the Lab/Shul re-interprets Yom Kippur as a Day of Forgiveness.

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Before there was Wikileaks, before there was Wikipedia… Before there was Facebook and Twitter and blogs… there was a computer programmer named Ward Cunningham.  He’s the guy who, back in 1995, invented the wiki.

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Trevor Paglan is the author of "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me." That's the Latin translation of a patch designed for a top secret Navy air testing station.

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Why aren't there more realistic portrayals of scientists in literary fiction?  Cell biologist and novelist Jennifer Rohn founded LabLit.com, a website that's at the center of the new movement calling for more and better science in fiction. 

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Steve Paulson talks with writers and editors about the enduring influence of Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita."

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Neuro-biologist Steven Rose says that new research and new therapy techniques raise new ethical questions that we should address now.

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Psychologist Barry Schwartz says we've gotten it all wrong when it comes to work. He says the conventional belief that workers are motivated by money is deeply flawed, and rooted in false theories that date back to Adam Smith.

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