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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Paulson prepared this report on the life of Edward Abbey, who's book changed the way people thought about the earth.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Producer Charles Monroe-Kane interviewed artist and barber Faisal Abdu'Allah in Madison, WI, at the Atwood Family Barber Shop.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Best-selling writer Elizabeth Gilbert brings an intrepid 19th century woman botanist to life in her latest novel, "The Signature of All Things."  In this conversation, she introduces us to the wonder of moss, Darwin's correspondance with "lady scientists" and the 16th century mystic, Jacob Boehme.

How do you make music from plants?  Here's a recent article about the artist Mileece.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Susan Braudy is the author of “Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left.”  The book tells the story of Kathy Boudin, daughter of famous lefty lawyer Leonard Boudin.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sergeant First Class Toby Nunn served two tours of duty in Iraq. He now works for the nonprofit organization Soldiers' Angels, which supports veterans and deployed military personnel and their families.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jazz singer Kurt Elling inspires with his passion for music and the mysterious.  Jim Fleming looks back at this illuminating interview with jazz singer Kurt Elling.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The protest at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation has caught fire. Its camp is now larger than most small towns in North Dakota. The protest is not just about an oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois. It's about water. Journalist John Fleck, who's spent decades writing about water disputes in the West, tells Anne Strainchamps how the Standing Rock protest figures into this history.

 

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nina Simone's powerful voice and turbulent life are the subjects of an Oscar-nominated documentary, a new biography and a forthcoming Hollywood biopic.  But it's her politics that speaks most forcefully to a new generation of African American activists.  Biographer Alan Light talks about the incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon.

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