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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What have the recent leaks about the NSA's surveillance program have revealed? In this EXTENDED interview, computer scientist and independent scholar Susan Landau gives us her perspective, and weighs in on the questions of inquiries, and checks and balances.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

This dusty 4,000 year old clay tablet written in an ancient script called cuneiform turns out to be a recipe for building an Ark.  

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thomas Glave is a young, Black, gay writer who’s lived in New York and Jamaica.  Glave tells Jim Fleming that he tries to understand and identify with all of his characters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If your mind is nothing more than brain chemistry, do you have free will? In this EXTENDED interview, cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga says new brain science should change our thinking about this old philosophical question.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Perle tells Steve Paulson that Iran is harboring Al Quaeda people; that the U.S. should always be on the side on people fighting for freedom and that his reputation as “the Prince of Darkness” results from a case of mistaken identity.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux tells Steve Paulson about the time he was held captive in Africa.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Janet Cardiff - and her partner George Bures Miller - have created sound, video and installation works that have delighted, seduced, entranced and shaken audiences around the globe. In this NEW and UNCUT interview, Cardiff talks with Anne Strainchamps about art and wonder.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Martin Luther King Jr. Day has us thinking about America's Great Migration -- the epic struggle for freedom that saw six million people migrate north from the southern states before the civil rights era.  So we're revisiting Steve Paulson's conversation with Isabel Wilkerson re. her book, "The Warmth of Other Suns."

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