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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The 1967 Ice Bowl is one of football's legendary showdowns, when the wind chill dipped to 50 below zero.  Commentator Bill Povletich remembers this historic game.

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

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

Stephen LaBerge pioneered the field of lucid dreaming research at Stanford University.  He says that anyone can learn how to become aware while dreaming and use lucid dreaming as a therapeutic tool.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Karen King is a historian at the Harvard Divinity School. She tells Anne Strainchamps that there are many early Christian texts that didn't make it into the Bible and that they give us a much fuller understanding of what it means to be a Christian.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Americans are still fighting over the legacy of the Vietnam War, but one perspective is missing: the Vietnamese experience. Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen provides a Vietnamese perspective.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Here is our Executive Producer Steve Paulson's list of books that have blown his mind recently, with hopes that some of them will expand yours in 2015, if they haven't already.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Science writer Jennifer Ouellette spent a year confronting her math phobia straight on.  She taught herself calculus.  It helped her win at Vegas, get a good mortgage, and might just save her from a zombie apocalypse. 

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