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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Shiva Bidar-Sielaff tells Anne Strainchamps that just translating the words isn’t enough in the case of patients from different backgrounds and cultures.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sandor Katz is the guru of the fermentation revival.  He explores the roots of our culture in all things cultured.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In her new novella, "Sleep Donation," Karen Russell mentions a documentary called "Is Sleep Going Extinct?"  That got us wondering what this fictional documentary would sound like.  Chances are it would NOT sound anything like this.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

G. Willow Wilson just won the World Fantasy Award for her novel, “Alif the Unseen”.  Also, Marvel Comics is launching a new Muslim girl super-hero and Willow will be the series’ writer.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stephen Long is the founder of Northern Woodlands Magazine.  He takes us for a walk in his Vermont woods and teaches us how to "read" a forest.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What would you do to make sure someone you love gets a quality education? Students become walking brands in this story by Kelsi Evans.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Toni Morrison may be a Nobel Laureate, but she still gets labeled a “Black woman writer.” She talks about her childhood and how the Civil Rights Movement magnified class differences.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Reinhold Messner is arguably the world’s greatest living mountaineer. He’s climbed 14 of the world’s tallest peaks, and if that isn’t impressive enough, he was the first to climb Mt. Everest alone and without supplemental oxygen. He recounts some of these adventures in a new book called “Reinhold Messner: My Life at the Limit.” Steve Paulson caught up with him and asked how he got hooked on climbing.

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