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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Cordani is CEO of Dyn-O-Mat. He invents things.  Like Dyn-O-Storm - a polymer gel that can be sprayed on clouds to make them go away.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Master gardener Michael Pollan talks about his youthful experiment with growing marijuana and explains how the war on drugs spurred growers into developing a stronger, hardier plant.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jill Sprecher is an optimist while her sister Karen is a pessimist.  Or is it the other way around?  Jill directed “Thirteen Conversations About One Thing” while Karen wrote the screenplay.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Karen Slavick-Lennard's husband talks in his sleep - and says the craziest things.  We talk with Karen and hear audio excerpts of "sleep talkin' man."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Marcel Danesi tells Steve Paulson why it’s dangerous for a culture when its members forsake maturity and wisdom in favor of a search for eternal youth.  

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Piri Thomas is best known for his classic memoir “Down These Mean Streets.”  Now in his mid-70's, Thomas is still active as an educator and activist with juvenile offenders.

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Milwaukee computer programmer Mohan Embar describes competing for -- and winning -- the 2012 Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence. His chat bot, Chip Vivant, was the most "human computer" of the year. But it still couldn't pass the Turing Test.

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Kevin Jennings grew up gay in the South as the son of a fundamentalist preacher.  He later founded GLSEN, advocacy group for gay and lesbian students.

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