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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jill Gusman is a chef and the author of “Vegetables from the Sea: Everyday Cooking with Sea Greens.”  She gives Anne Strainchamps some of her favorite seaweed recipes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joe Nick Patoski has been writing about his friend Willie Nelson for thirty five years. He talks about Nelson's first claim to fame in Nashville was as a songwriter.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Julia Hansen chained herself to the radiator in her dining room for a week in an effort to quit smoking cigarettes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A rant/sermon from Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at Yale.  In his paper “The Simulation Argument,” he makes the case that life as we know it may be a computer simulation being run by our descendants.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

P.D. James created Adam Dalgleish, a detective almost as beloved as Holmes. Steve Paulson spoke with her on the occasion of the publication of her memoir, "Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham says the big question is WHEN did we become human? He tells Steve Paulson it's clearly when we started cooking.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Have you had culture shock? Did it hit when you were travelling or when you were at home?

Writer Josh Swiller says, as a young man, he often felt outside his home culture. 
 
He decided to leave the U.S. altogether and found a whole new world of challenging inter-cultural communication.

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