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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Photographer William Christenberry takes pictures of simple buildings in forgotten corners of his home place of Hale County, Alabama, year after year to document how they change over time.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Saul Williams has been hailed as hip hop's poet laureate. He talks with Anne Strainchamps, and we hear some of his work.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There's a short story about a guy who's so afraid of other people reading his mind that he wears a tin foil hat to protect his thoughts. The tin foil part is crazy, but protecting your mind is maybe not such a bad idea. Academic psychologist Rob Brotherton says there are certain psychological traits that predispose people to believe in conspiracy theories. For example, there's an experiment done by a group of psychologists in Amsterdam. It involves a group of subjects and a messy desk.

FIND OUT HOW LIKELY YOU ARE TO BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES BY TAKING ROB'S QUIZ.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tad Pierson runs a tour business called “American Dream Safari.”  He takes his clients on tours of Memphis and into Mississippi in his 1955 Cadillac named Mansfield.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brendan Koerner talks about his book, "The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Music critic Yuval Taylor tells Steve Paulson that authenticity in music is a complicated business.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

You may not know Shepard Fairey but, you probably know his work. In 2008 he created the now-iconic Obama HOPE poster.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dubbed a secular mosque for the Arab world, the Burj Khalifa dominates the Dubai skyline. As it should: it's by far the tallest building in the world. It's so tall that during Ramadan, Muslims living on higher floors have to break their fast 2 minutes later than those on lower floors because they see the sunset later in the day.

Steve Paulson sat down with legendary architecture critic Paul Goldberger to talk all things Burj Kalifa.

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