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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Phil Toledano was worried about the future.  So he decided to look it in the face.  He took a DNA test and hired a special effects makeup artist to help him become different versions of his future self.  Then he staged photos.  They're the subject of a new book, MAYBE, and a new film. 

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Former TTBOOK producer and interviewer Judith Strasser was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2005. Last summer, a tumor in her lungs attacked the nerve which controls the larynx, making it difficult, but not impossible, for her to speak.

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Jess Winfield was one of the original members of "The Reduced Shakespeare Company." He's now a novelist and talks with Jim Fleming about "My Name is Will: a Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare."

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Three physicists just won the Nobel Prize for their discovery that the universe is rapidly expanding.  

 

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Plant biologist Nicholas Harberd took a year off to study a common weed - the thalecress - that  he found growing in a country churchyard.

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Nuala O’Faolain tells Jim Fleming one of her novels is based on an adulterous affair across class lines in Ireland during the potato famine.

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Former casting director Joanna Merlin talks with Jim Fleming about the auditioning process.  Her book is “Auditioning: An Actor-Friendly Guide.”

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Mark Headley talks about his book, "Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology."

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