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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rajiv Joseph is a New York playwright. He tells Jim Fleming he wrote “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” based on a small newspaper story...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Klimley is the world’s leading expert on Hammerhead and Great White sharks. He tells Jim Fleming what Hollywood got wrong in “Jaws."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Can you actually see creativity in the brain?   Neuroscientist Rex Jung describes brain imaging studies of creativity in action.

You can also listen to the EXTENDED interview, and read the extended transcript.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Poetry Foundation's mandate is to support "a vigorous presence for poetry." In our digital age, that means getting poems onto our screens, big and small. Catherine Halley run the Foundation's digital programs. 

Also, you can hear more poems from Nikki Giovanni here!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Pagan Kennedy is the author of “Black Livingstone,” a biography of 19th century black American missionary William Sheppard.

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Matt Hern thinks public education should be available to everyone, but not compulsory.

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Do do I look good in this dress?  We all know the answer, right?  It’s "you look great." Even if that’s not quite true.  

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Feeling lonely is a signal that we need to interact with others as fundamental to our well-being as signals like hunger and thirst.

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