Audio

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Love him or hate him, presidential candidate and consumer advocate Ralph Nader has stuck to his principles.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jessica Lamb-Shapiro attended a conference of self-help authors featuring Mark Victor Hansen of "Chicken Soup for the..." fame.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Olympic Games in Russia are on our minds.  In particular, the growing political protests against Russia’s recent anti-gay legislation.  Which has us remembering the most famous political protest in Olympics history.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Alderman tells Steve Paulson that  once young people figured out how to share music on the Internet, the floodgates were opened.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Myhrvold talks about inventing and his six-volume, 2400-page, 52 pound cookbook called Modernist Cuisine.

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.
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Julie Norem is the author of “The Power of Negative Thinking.”  She tells Jim Fleming about her strategy of “defensive pessimism,” and explains the good it can do.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Liaquat Ahamed talks about the parallels between the recent financial meltdown and the events that led up to the Great Depression. Both situations involved bubbles, and errors by the Federal Reserve System.

Pages

Subscribe to Audio