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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Do you believe in love at first sight? 

James Bennett says he experienced... well... something like it. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Wailin’ Jennys talk about the joys and mystery of harmony, and sing a few examples. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

You've heard the saying, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Journalist David Rieff thinks that's rubbish, and he says if you want peace, it's sometimes better to forget historical crimes than try to get justice.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Terry Tempest Williams has spent much of her life trying to understand her mother - both a  private woman and a trickster.  Her memoir is also an exploration of silence and finding one's voice.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Summer festivals are a huge part of the American music scene -- and of the music marketplace.  Why do millions of people risk sunburn and dehydration when they could hear the same music better with earbuds?  Music critic Maura Johnston unpacks the economics and the atavistic lure of the summer music festival.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For a truly mind-bending experience, here’s an UNCUT interview with Stanislav Grof on his pioneering studies of LSD and other psychedelics.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When the last of the infamous Chicago Public Housing buildings were demolished Audrey Petty asked herself a few questions, “Where did everybody go?” And, “what are their memories?”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Larry Brilliant is a doctor, co-founder of the digital social network the Well, and he was the first executive director of Google.org. But back in the Sixties, he was a hippie doctor who joined Wavy Gravy's traveling bus caravan and then landed in an Indian ashram in the Himalayas, where his guru told him his destiny was to help cure smallpox. Miraculously, his U.N. team of doctors eradicated the world's remaining cases of this terrible disease. He tells Steve Paulson about a remarkable moment in history when anything seemed possible.

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