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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Kimmelman on "The Accidental Masterpiece"

Michael Kimmelman talks with Steve Paulson about making your life a work of art.

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Jeanine Basinger on "The Star Machine"

Jeanine Basinger tells Anne Strainchamps how the movie studios manufactured stars from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Richard Manning on "Food's Frontier"

Richard Manning is the author of many books including “Food’s Frontier: The Next Green Revolution.”  Among the scientists profiled in that book is Robert Goodman, a plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin.

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Philippe Petit Excerpt and Colum McCann on "Let the Great World Spin"

Colum McCann's novel "Let the Great World Spin" takes place on the day of tight-rope artist Philipe Petit's trip across the World Trade Centers.

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Martha Herbert on Autism

Autism's a tricky diagnosis. And its causes - and increasingly frequent diagnosis - are also mysterious. In this NEW and EXTENDED interview, Martha Herbert talks with Anne Strainchamps about unpacking autism.

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Karen Russell on "Sleep Donation"

Lauded novelist and shortstory writer Karen Russell has tackled a new genre, the novella. In this EXTENDED interview, she talks about "Sleep Donation."

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Radioactive Clocks And The Women Poisoned By Them

How painting radium on watches and instrument dials killed more than 50 young women working in Ottawa, Illinois.

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Meg Gaines on Fighting Cancer and Healthcare

Meg Gaines is an attorney who was diagnosed in 1994 with terminal, inoperable ovarian cancer. She is now cancer free.

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