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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What turns you on?

Sure, there are the obvious answers: beauty, brains, braun. But human sexuality is a complicated business. Studying it is more complicated still. That was, until the internet came along.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Producer Cynthia Woodland invited Anthony Cooper and his sons (Akheem and Anthony Junior) into our studio, to talk about what it’s like, raising black teenagers in America. 

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Outstanding playwright and performer Sarah Jones takes us inside creating characters. She won a Tony for her multi-character solo show, "Bridge & Tunnel," which was a long running hit on Broadway.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Film critic Roger Ebert’s written a book called “The Great Movies” in which he describes 100 films he thinks make the cut. Among them is Richard Lester’s film of the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night.”  Ebert talks about why that film is so important.

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Jamie Coots, the pastor at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus’ Name, in Middlesboro, Kentucky, died after he was bitten by a rattlesnake he was handling during a church service. We interviewed him a few weeks before his death.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

William Irwin tells Steve Paulson how philosophical questions echo throughout popular culture with several examples from Seinfeld and The Simpsons.

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Film-maker Walter Williams created the “Mr. Bill” character for “Saturday Night Live.”  He was born and raised in New Orleans and has thought a lot about the natural history of his hometown.

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Visionary computer scientist Jaron Lanier explores the rise of the tech industry in his book "Who Owns the Future?" In it, he explains why the next information economy is hurting the middle class.

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