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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

NPR's Robert Krulwich, co-host of RADIOLAB, says that the secret to good science reporting is to start at the beginning and go slowly so people can understand it.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Melissa Fay Greene provides a profile of the AIDS orphans of Ethiopia and one remarkable woman who saved dozens by opening her home to them after the death of her adult daughter from AIDS.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this EXTENDED interview, Adam Mansbach talks about his new novel, "Rage is Back." 

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

British journalist Jay Griffiths talks with Jim Fleming about the ways different cultures around the world think about time.  Her book is “A Sideways Look at Time.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this EXTENDED interview, Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about his autobiographical novel, “My Struggle,” as well as his unorthodox approach to writing.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Piers Steel describes himself as a semi-reformed procrastinator. He is an authority on the science of motivation and teaches at the University of Calgary.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kirsten Bakis first wrote her story of biomechanically-enhanced, hyper-intelligent dogs 20 years ago, and it’s been a cult favorite ever since. So why create a post-modern Frankenstein story with dogs at the heart of the tale?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jessica Helfand tells Jim Fleming that people constructed unique personal narratives out of whatever materials were at hand, long before there was a scrapbooking business to help them.

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