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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Mike Magnuson tells Steve Paulson that people make assumptions about him because of his size and appearance, describes his work history as a grunt.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Karen Armstrong is one of the world's best-known writers on religion, but her own spiritual path hasn't been easy.  She tells us why she joined a convent and then left - and how she later came to appreciate religious texts.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher at the University of Toronto, and author of "The Brain that Changes Itself." 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Harrison travels to some of the most remote places in the world, documenting endangered languages.  He tells us about the language warriors:  the last speakers of ancestral languages.  Many of them are trying to preserve and revive their native tongues.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Poet and writer Kenneth Goldsmith talks about his "Uncreative Writing" course in which students are penalized for showing any originality and creativity.  Goldsmith is the author of "Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In 2001, reporter Marja Mills met the celebrated and notoriously private author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee. The two struck up a friendship and, a few years after their first meeting, the two became neighbors. Mills writes about their friendship in her new memoir, “The Mockingbird Next Door.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jay Parini is a poet, novelist and teacher. He's also the author of "Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America." He tells Jim Fleming that his is not a list of "great books" but rather books that significantly changed the literary climate of American culture.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Celtic historian John Matthews tells Steve Paulson that Merlin probably was a real person and that wizards are related to our ancient shamans.

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