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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stacy Holman Jones is the author of "Torch Singing."  She loves the music, but as an avowed feminist.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

An audio installation that gives tropical plants the tools to play synthesizers, allowing people to experience biorhythms as live music.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

S.T. Joshi says Lovecraft was always interested in pure science and has many imitators among contemporary writers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For a lot of people, Albert Camus remains an essential writer. His philosophy of the absurd resonates with our struggle to find meaning in life. He also wrote eloquently about national identity and terrorism. Here we reflect on Camus’ life and enduring legacy.

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Anthropologist Scott Atran has spent a decade interviewing jailed suicide bombers and jihadist military leaders.  He says religious terrorists are motivated by the many of the same human values celebrated in every culture:  brotherhood, loyalty, and the dream of a better world. 

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Jason Padgett was a hard-partying guy until a traumatic brain injury turned him into a math genius. Now, he sees complex geometric designs everywhere he looks.

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As far as questions of neurology, perhaps no creature is more mysterious and amazing than the octopus. In this EXTENDED interview, science writer Sy Montgomery talks about what she discovered when she met Athena, an octopus at the New England Aquarium.

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Tom Farley, older brother of comedian Chris Farley, is the co-author (with Tanner Colby) of "The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts." He tells Jim Fleming that the young Chris was always funny, but was funnier when he was sober.

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