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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Brown is an anthropologist and the author of “Who Owns Native Culture?”  He talks about some of the legal and constitutional issues involved with controversies around Native American sacred sites and artifacts.

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Rev. Jesse Jackson is not about to go quietly. He tells Steve Paulson not to confuse a music genre with basic freedoms, and outlines his contributions as a Civil Rights leader over the past 40 years.

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Richard Ranft has collected underwater sounds of mating haddock, snapping shrimp, walruses and other sea creatures.

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Novelist Nicholson Baker tells Anne Strainchamps that e-readers have some advantages over the printed book, but the Kindle isn't his favorite.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

It's flu season. While you stock up on vitamin C, zinc and herbal tea, you might also want to pick up a copy of historian Erika Janik’s brand new book, “Marketplace of the Marvelous --  The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine.”

 

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David Rothenberg has played music with birds and even whales. But his latest music project is much less, well, melodious…

 . . . like playing music with insects. He’s recorded songs with a lot of them -- crickets and cicadas and yes, even mosquitoes.

Producer Craig Eley sat down with David Rothenberg to talk “bug music.”

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Anne Strainchamps talks with poet Li-Young Lee about the power of love and we hear excerpts from some of Lee's poems.

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Katherine Ellison says that pregnancy and motherhood change women's brains for the better, making them smarter, calmer and more competent.

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