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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joe Keenan is a novelist. He reads from his latest - "My Lucky Star" - and talks about the story with Steve Paulson.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Guber founded Mandalay Entertainment and Polygram Entertainment.  He tells Anne Strainchamps that most people try to pitch him a business deal, not a creative vision.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Owen Flanagan is a philosopher of mind who spends his professional life tackling the so-called "hard problem" of consciousness.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Santos is an exponent of Afro-Latin music and leader of the jazz group John Santos and Machete.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

How close are we to electing a woman as president?  Journalist Rebecca Traister says "next election close." 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Slime molds that solve mazes and parasitic dodder plants that seek out their prey are remarkable examples of nature's intelligence.  Anthropologist Jeremy Narby offers lessons on how to see the entire world as our kin.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Hoffman is the author of “Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight.”  Hoffman tells Jim Fleming that Santos-Dumont’s craft (which he tethered to a light-post outside Maxim’s while he had dinner) was a motorized hot air balloon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Biographer Robert Caro tells the remarkable story of how Lyndon Johnson became president after being humiliated as vice-president by John and Robert Kennedy.

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