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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Stilgoe tells Jim Fleming that people would discover all sorts of new things if they would walk or ride a bicycle and leave the car at home.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kathleen Parker believes that popular culture portrays men as incompetent fools and classrooms ignore material of interest to boys. She says intelligent women need someone else to talk to, much less to marry and raise children with, so it's in women's interest to fix this.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Maryam Eskandari is a mosque architect and founder of MIIM Designs.  She say most non-Muslims think designing a mosque is full of rules. But it’s not. She told Charles Monroe-Kane that the only rule is you have to point out the direction to Mecca. This is called the marabji.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Nigel Nicolson says Woolf invented the stream-of consciousness literary style, endured several bouts of madness, and died a suicide.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Do you need an advanced degree in math or physics to make discoveries about the cosmos?  Science writer Margaret Wertheim says thousands of amateur scientists have proposed their own theories about the universe.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist - and undocumented immigrant -- Jose Antonio Vargas is in our Crossroads show this week. Want to hear the EXTENDED interview with him? Here it is...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jim Cummings runs Earth Ear, an on-line catalogue of environmental sound-scapes.  He talks about the new field of acoustic ecology.

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