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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leonard Steinhorn tells Jim Fleming that Boomer Bashing is the last acceptable prejudice in America, and that it's nothing new.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Manny Yarborough is 6'7" tall, weighs over 700 pounds, and  is a former amateur world champion sumo wrestler. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Carthusian order of Monks believe in complete withdrawal from the world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The stereotype of photojournalists is that they’re adrenaline junkies.  Risk takers.  But they're often surprisingly humble about their work -- maybe because their job is to erase themselves, to become the lens that lets us see the world.  Here photojournalist Brendan Bannon talks about finding beauty in the midst of suffering and about a photo he took at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Poplak tells Anne Strainchamps about the ill-fated attempt to adapt The Simpsons for the Arab world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Brend tells Anne Strainchamps about odd inventions like the Ondes Martenot and how composers have used them.

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Robert Glasper's new album Black Radio is a reference to the black box of recordings that survives a plane crash.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jonathan Coe tells Anne Strainchamps about the careeer of experimental novelist B.S. Johnson who tried to reinvent the novel with every book he wrote.

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