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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Composer Freddy Knop creates a soundscape to help illustrate Nathan Englander's experience of the muse descending.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wally Williams is Chief Executive Officer of Tequila Mockingbird and Sound Design in Austin, Texas, a successful commercial production facility. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Almond tells Steve Paulson some of his favorite candy bars are the regional specialities, and remembers the pop rocks craze.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

How should we decide when to stop life-prolonging treatments for people with severe brain damage and terminal illness? Are live organ donors always out of the question? As medicine makes it possible for us to prolong life, when should we just let - or help - someone die?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ted Steinberg tells Jim Fleming that Americans love perfect mono-cultures and are willing to over-water and freely use chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides to achieve them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Patricia Lockwood is a rising star on the poetry scene. She's been dubbed the "poet laureate of Twitter,” and her latest collection, “Motherland, Fatherland, Homelandsexuals" is making waves. This also includes a bonus reading of Lockwood's poem, "Revealing Nature Photographs."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Steven Mintz tells Jim Fleming that the idyllic, carefree American childhood never existed.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Suppose you could remember every day of your life. Would that be a blessing or a curse? For Jill Price it's been a burden. She has a very rare form of memory that gives her nearly total recall.

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