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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

three of Aldo Leopold’s children talk about what it was like to grow up as part of a pioneering experiment in prairie restoration.  They had no idea what they were doing, but they loved it!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Scott Turow has made a career writing hugely successful legal thrillers, but then he turned to a World War II novel.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Simon Critchley is the author of "The Book of Dead Philosophers," a quirky account of how various philosophers thought about death and died themselves.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Did you know that 7 Up was originally called Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda?  Good thing they changed the name.  That's one of the fascinating facts from Tristan Donovan's book, "Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World." Donovan takes us on a guided tour of the secret history of fizzy water.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jill Fredston has rowed more than 20,000 miles of Arctic water, along the coastlines of Alaska and Greenland and alongside whales and polar bears.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Brown was an abolitionist who from the beginning was committed to the abolition of slavery and called for ending it through armed insurrection.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Samuel R. Delany has been described as "American science fiction's most consistently brilliant and inventive writer."  Delany's non-fiction includes the essay collection, "The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction."  He talked to Steve Paulson about his love of language.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Philosopher Susan Brison faced a personal and professional crisis after she was attacked and raped in France.  She tells Anne Strainchamps how traditional philosophy failed to comfort her.

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