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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Rothenberg has played music with birds and even whales. But his latest music project is much less, well, melodious…

 . . . like playing music with insects. He’s recorded songs with a lot of them -- crickets and cicadas and yes, even mosquitoes.

Producer Craig Eley sat down with David Rothenberg to talk “bug music.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Poet Molly Peacock talks with Steve Paulson about the emotional impact of colors. Peacock recites a few poems.

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While coastal dialects are being lost, new American dialects are developing all the time as American English evolves.

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Anne Strainchamps talks with poet Li-Young Lee about the power of love and we hear excerpts from some of Lee's poems.

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Mark Kurlansky talks with Jim Fleming about the long and dramatic history of salt.

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These days it doesn't matter whether you are a conservative or a liberal, if you are looking for inspiration you look to Ronald Reagan.

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Pamela Logan has been studying and practicing martial arts for twenty five years. She’s a fourth degree black belt in karate. And she’s the author of “Among Warriors.”

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Nathaniel Philbrick tells Jim Fleming that the myth of the first Thanksgiving is great for children, but the truth about Plymouth Plantation is a lot darker and more complicated.

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