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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Doug Gordon talks with Terre Roche about The Roches - Terre and her two sisters and their new album.  And we hear lots of music!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Helen Turrner is the "Queen of Barbecue," the owner and pitmaster of Helen's Bar-B-Q in Brownsville, Tennessee. She's one of the few women pitmasters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist Samuel Freedman says that American Jews are free to assimilate to whatever extent they choose, but this very freedom has caused new tensions and divisions within the Tribe.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sean Carroll tells Steve Paulson about new discoveries in evolutionary history, including the existence and purpose of fossil genes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Biblical archaeology can rewrite and reshape history.   But there’s theology at stake, too.  Like when the Gnostic Gospels were discovered in 1945 buried in the Egypt.

Would you like to read the Gospel of Thomas? Click here for the full text.

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Best-selling writer Elizabeth Gilbert brings an intrepid 19th century woman botanist to life in her latest novel, "The Signature of All Things."  In this conversation, she introduces us to the wonder of moss, Darwin's correspondance with "lady scientists" and the 16th century mystic, Jacob Boehme.

How do you make music from plants?  Here's a recent article about the artist Mileece.

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