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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jason Soares is a member of the band "Aspects of Physics", whose music has to do with the mathematics of the ratios of how we assign tones into scales in music.

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

Lisa Chamberlain is a Gen-X journalist and author.  She feels the economy has been an enormous influence on Generation X, turning them into innovators and free-thinkers who operate outside the status quo. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

How painting radium on watches and instrument dials killed more than 50 young women working in Ottawa, Illinois.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jerome Wakefield tells Steve Paulson how the medical profession's attempts to make precise diagnoses have led them to define emotional states as medical conditions.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

As a child, Michael Ondaatje took a long ocean voyage from Sri Lanka to England.  This is the seed of his novel "The Cat's Table."  He talks with Jim Fleming about the fine line between fiction and memoir.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Auster is both a film-maker and a novelist.  His new book is “The Book of Illusions: A Novel.”  It’s about a professor who discovers the work of a silent film comedian.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Gordon talks with Steve Paulson about Muddy Waters and his music, placing him at the crux of the blues and rock.

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