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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sometimes beginning again means leaving an old life behind.

For Michelle Kennedy and her three children, that led to living in their car.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonathan Margolis talks with Jim Fleming about some of the innovations futurologists are predicting for us all, from ear stud cell phones to on-line vacations and cybersex.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ned Rorem tells Jim Fleming that the world of classical music is all about money today and that performers seem to matter even more than the music.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Yellowlees is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Queensland in Australia.  His lab has built a device that recreates the aural and visual hallucinations typical of schizophrenia.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the National Book Critics Circle award for her new novel, "Americanah." We went back to our archives and found this memorable interview with Adichie from 2010, when Steve Paulson spoke to her about her earlier novel "The Thing Around Your Neck."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nina Paley has made a film using animation, Indonesian shadow puppets and a ‘20s era jazz singer to re-tell the story from the Ramayana of the marriage of the Hindu god Rama and his wife, Sita.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Quentin Schultze is the author of “Habits of the High Tech Heart.”  He says that we should resist “informationism” and try to develop wisdom.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Billy Collins reads the poem, "Reader," from his new collection of poems, "Aimless Love."

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