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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Intensive polling over several years in both countries shows that Americans and Canadians are developing differences in their social, political and moral attitudes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Musician and author Rae Spoon grew up as a girl. About ten years ago Rae came out as a transman. Then, a couple of years ago, they decided to retire... from gender.

You can also check out "Gender Failure" by Rae and Ivan E. Coyote.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Doyle is the author of "Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Ekman tells Jim Fleming about different kinds of lies, and the physical signs that signal deceit.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Marcella Hazan is a chef and teacher of cooking.  She thinks Americans totally misunderstand Italian food.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kevin Kelly tells Jim Fleming that the sum total of our technology - what he calls “the technicum” - is taking on the properties of life itself.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 Inspired by the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements and by African-American activists and artists Giovanni’s poetry has become synonymous with the struggle of African-Americans, and especially the struggle of Black women.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For TTBOOK host Anne Strainchamps her only encounters with guns happened in the pages of crime fiction -- usually, stories featuring women. Give her a woman and a gun and she was there for 200 plus pages.   Kinsey Milhone, VI Warshawski, Miss Marple, Nancy Drew…She could name dozens of fictional female crime fighters -- but not one real-life woman detective.  

That was until she picked up historian Erika Janik’s latest, “Pistols and Petticoats.”   It’s the story of how women moved from crime solving in fiction to the real world.   

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