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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonathan Harris created the website wefeelfine.org. He tells Steve Paulson how it works, and we hear a montage of postings from the site.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John McWhorter teaches linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of “Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care.” 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Luke Rhinehart's novel, “The Dice Man", involves a psychiatrist who opens his life to new possibilities by basing his actions on a throw of the diced.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Melissa Coleman spent the formative years of her chilldhood roaming the lands of her family's farn in rural Maine.  Melissa, her sister Heidi, and their parents, Eliot and Sue Coleman, lived off the grid, and became media darlings when the Wall Street Journal ran an article about her father.  Coleman writes about that time in her memoir "This Life is in Your Hands."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lawrence Krauss isn't only a famous physicist; he's also the subject, along with Richard Dawkins, of the documentary film "The Unbelievers."  He tells Steve Paulson that science has replaced philosophy and religion as the place to deal with the Big Questions.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rae Armantrout believes that there is one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laura Sessions Stepp tells Jim Fleming that sports are good for kids and that all kids need something to be passionate about.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jane Juska tells Anne Strainchamps why, at the age of 66, she took out an ad in the NY Review of Books looking for as many sexual partners as possible.

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