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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Walter Hamady is the proprietor of the Perishable Press Limited, and among the most celebrated American printers of fine, limited edition books.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Best-selling author Steve Berry tells Jim Fleming he works on three books at once to keep a best-seller in the pipeline.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What do the NSA disclosures really tell us? Ben Wizner should know. When he's not directing the ACLU's Speech Privacy and Technology Project, he doubles as Edward Snowden's legal adviser. He explains why we should be worried about the agency's push to expand its surveillance programs.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eric Carson is a geomorphologist — which, as he describes it, is basically a "double major" in geology and geography. Some time ago he and a few colleagues started asking a question about a geologic shelf where the Mississippi meets the Wisconsin River. The results could have meant nothing, or they could have meant a major new revelation about the Mississippi's historical path to the ocean.

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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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Film critic Roger Ebert on the glories of black and white films

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Yale Strom talks with Steve Paulson about the klezmer revival, particularly in Poland, and what it means when this culture is re-created by non-Jews.

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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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