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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Loren Coleman tells Jim Fleming why he's still looking for the next Lake Monster or Bigfoot or Thunderbird.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Koren Zailckas started drinking at fourteen; she tells Steve Paulson how frighteningly easy it is for very young girls to get alcohol.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The iconic violinist of his generation, Joshua Bell tells Steve Paulson about his involvement with composer John Corigliano for "The Red Violin" film and subsequent concert pieces.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

MigraZoom is a participatory photography project with migrants in transit through Mexico en route to the U.S. MigraZoom tells us their own migration experience trough the lens of a camera.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Groundbreaking theoretical physicist Lee Smolin weighs in on creative problem solving in physics. Some advice that has served him? Start fresh every ten years.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Patrick Hennessey tells Jim Fleming about his war service in Iraq and Afghanistan and the role that books played in his life as a soldier.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this final segment, we take a left turn to punk.

Richard Hell co-founded the band Television in the mid-70s. He also created a look and sound that would eventually be called “punk.” 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Martha Ackmann is the author of “The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight.” Ackman says that in 1960, female astronaut trainees were expected to fly in full make-up, Chanel suits and high heels.

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