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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Perhaps one of the most obvious and important cultural divides in the United States is between the political right and left.

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Steve Paulson about his research into the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republican, and how we might begin to speak across the gap.
 
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Did you hear about our sci-fi short fiction contest? If you want some inspiration, here's Junot Diaz on why he's a big sci-fi fan.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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.  

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Parker Palmer has a solution to the problems of today's politics and it’s right in the title of this book “Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kathleen Dean Moore is a philosopher at Oregon State University, but her passion is an inhospitable island off the coast of Alaska. On Pine Island you can expect rain, fog, desolation, and a world of beauty that comes from the reality of natural surroundings.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

American cross country ski champion Nina Kemppel tells Jim Fleming that winning an Olympic medal matters to every athlete who competes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Madeleine Albright tells Steve Paulson that being the first female Secretary of State was more of a problem within the U.S. than it ever was when she represented our interests abroad.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Theroux lived and taught in Africa throughout much of the 1960s. He returned recently and describes the journey in his book “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town.”

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