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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What will extraterrestrial life look like? Paul Davies thinks it might be stranger than you can imagine.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Carey's  novel "True History of The Kelly Gang" has been described as "a spectacular feat of literary ventriloquism."  Carey tells Steve Paulson that's because he wrote the book in another voice.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jon Scieskza tells Anne Strainchamps that boys like to read funny stuff, not the books their female teachers loved as girls.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A recent study of DNA from Neanderthal bones changed everything we thought we knew.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Pir Zubair Shah is a Pakistani journalist who risked his life reporting for the New York Times from his homeland -- Waziristan, in the heart of Taliban-controlled Pashtun area.   He won a Pulitzer Prize for his work, but had to leave his country.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jason Pfaff wants to eat in every single Denny’s.  He’s made it to a few hundred so far.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sacks had a particular fascination with the ways our brains can play tricks on our vision. He also reveals his own lifelong struggle to recognize the faces of other people.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joshua Shenk tells Jim Fleming that Abraham Lincoln never attempted suicide, that we know of, but referred to it in a poem he wrote, and Shenk recites the poem.

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