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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Davidson is a neuro-psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a longtime friend of the Dalai Lama. He tells Steve Paulson about observing contemplatives with a brain scanner.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Miller is the unofficial spokesman for remix culture in his persona as DJ Spooky.

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Jane Juska was 67 when she placed a personal ad in the NY Review of Books looking for good sex with a man she liked.

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Ecologist Mark Hunter talks with Jim Fleming about the destructive capacity of alien insects.

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Neil Baldwin tells Jim Fleming that Henry Ford was a virulent anti-Semite who bought a newspaper to publish his Jewish conspiracy propaganda.

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Julia Mickenberg tells Steve that some of the best known children's book writers were longtime political radicals.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

So, National Parks are the greatest thing since sliced bread. And everyone loves them. Right? Well, not so fast.  In the past couple years, a small group of Republicans have introduced bills that would seriously curtailing the creation of new National Parks and roll back protections of existing ones. These have been dubbed the “No More National Parks” bills. None of these bills have become law. Yet.Claire Moser works for the Public Lands Project for The Center for American Progress and she is trying to steop those bills.

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One of this summer's hot new reads is Dean Bakopoulos' new novel, "Summerlong."  It's the story of Claire and Don Lowry.  They've been married for a long time.  And they're now back in the college town where they met -- Grinnell, Iowa.  Claire wanted to be a writer but wound up a stay-at-home mom, while Don is a real estate agent.  When we meet them, they're deeply in debt and unbeknownst to Claire, they're also behind on their mortgage.  And then everything begins to fall apart.

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