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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kim Hiss tells Anne Strainchamps about her first hunt. Kim Hiss is an Associate Editor for Field and Stream Magazine and blogs as Huntress.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Halpern talks with Jim Fleming about the sexual sub-text in Norman Rockwell’s work

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Today, thanks to Black History Month, legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie "Bird" Parker is on our minds.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

As editor of Poetry Magazine, Christian Wiman reads thousands of new poems a year. Who better to check in with on the state of English language poetry? 

To hear Wiman talk about his own writing, listen here.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Laurence Gonzales tells Jim Fleming about "Lucy," in which a mysterious 15 year old girl is discovered in the Congo.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

So, there’s a serious proposal on the table. Should we genetically engineer disease-carrying species of mosquitoes out of existence? The technology exists and some pretty prominent scientists think we should.

Let’s check in with Sonia Shah.  She’s a science journalist who writes about pandemics and pathogens and the social history of disease.  She wrote one of the best histories of malaria – a book called “The Fever”, and she has a pretty different perspective on the kill or be killed debate.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jill Price simply can't forget.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer and teacher Parker Palmer talks with Anne Strainchamps about his experience with clinical depression and attending to people on their deathbeds.

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