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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Have you got a nose for the new? Do you make fast decisions, based on incomplete information? Do you lose your temper quickly? Are you bored a lot? Do you thrive in chaotic situations? You might be a born seeker… what Winifred Gallagher calls a neophiliac.

 

Take the quiz. Are you a neophiliac?


http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/the-well-quiz-how-adventurous-are-you/

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Simon Worrall tells Anne Strainchamps about Mark Hoffman, possibly the greatest literary forger of all time.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Perhaps one of the most obvious and important cultural divides in the United States is between the political right and left.

 
In this UNCUT interview, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Steve Paulson about his research into the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republican, and how we might begin to speak across the gap.
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Claressa Shields is one of the highest ranked fighters in the world. At the age of 17 she became the first American to win gold in Olympic Women's Boxing. To date, she has more than fifty victories and only one loss. So what's it like to be one of the toughest teen fighters in the world? Charles Monroe-Kane called Claressa to find out.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anne Strainchamps and two pet owners have a session with Pet Psychic Sonya Fitzpatrick who claims to be able to communicate with pets, even after they’ve died.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

2010 was a great year for documentaries, even if they weren't actually documentaries.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Singer/songwriter Steve Earle was the Next Big Thing in alternative country music until heroin addiction and a chaotic personal life de-railed his career and almost killed him.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Benjamin Percy's new novel"The Dead Lands" is a wilderness thriller set in a post-apocalyptic landscape.  The descendants of Lewis and Clark reprise their ancestors' epic cross-country journey in search of a new beginning.

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