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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Two experts talk about Vastu, a Hindu philosophy for designing buildings in harmony with the universe.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Teddy Atlas is famous in boxing circles as a coach.  Atlas tells Steve Paulson about his journey from a violent and criminal youth to self-respect and maturity.

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Mississippian Charlotte Hays is co-author of a cookbook called, “Being Dead is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral.” 

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Sarah Flannery is an Irish mathematician and former child prodigy.  She won the EU Young Scientist of the Year award when she was 16 for her work on the Cayley-Purser algorithm.  She challenges us to  the Russian Postal System puzzle. 

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Daniel Wolff is the author of "How Lincoln Learned to Read: 12 Great Americans and the Education That Made Them." He tells Anne Strainchamps that most Americans learn what they really need to know outside of school and that, as a society, we believe contradictory things about the value of public education.

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Steve Kissing was sure he was possessed by the devil. He kept it secret for years. The truth emerged when he had a seizure and woke up in an ambulance: he had epilepsy.

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Sasha Issenberg says that modern Sushi was born in 1971 when a Japan Airlines employee first brought Canadian tuna halfway around the world.

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Siberia is vast... and writer Ian Frazier has crossed it all. He fell in love with the place he calls, “greatest horrible country.”

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