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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Zach Helm wrote the screenplay for "Stranger than Fiction," in which Will Ferrell hears the voice of Emma Thompson apparently narrating his life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Television is rife with shows about female spies, whether it's Nikita, Covert Affairs, the Americans, or Homeland. It really seems like spy girls are having a moment on TV, but how true to life are these popular depictions? We turned to former CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson to find out.

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Scott Topper's a poet, but that doesn't mean he's not conflicted about the twin powers of reading and writing.

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Stephen Bloom tells Jim Fleming about a group of Orthodox Jews who moved from Brooklyn to Postville to run a kosher slaughterhouse.

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A lot of pro football players cross-train. They practice the plays and the running, the throws and the tackles. We've even heard stories of pro athletes taking ballet lessons to lighten their footwork. But for NFL MVP Shaun Alexander, training also included chess.

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Paleontologist Simon Conway Morris talks with Steve Paulson about convergence and the evolution of intelligence.

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Tim Friend has written a book about Archaea - a kind of microbe that doesn't fit into any of the traditional categories of life.

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Dame Evelyn Glennie is considered one of the greatest percussionists alive today.  She’s also deaf. 

To watch/listen to her perform CLICK HERE.

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