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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For thousands of years, people have been telling stories about magical woods and enchanted forests.  Writer and mythographer Marina Warner talks about the forest in human memory and imagination.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nadine Svoboda’s been all over the world listening to forests.  She records their sounds for the British Library Sound Archive.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lada Adamic is one of a host of data scientists working at facebook. Anne Strainchamps wanted to know what all those sociologists are up to.

Check out Facebook's social science website.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Reverend Michael A. Schuler talks about the satisfactions of staying put.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Martin Amis talks with Jim Fleming about his new novel, "House of Meetings" and the legacy of Stalin on Russia.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paco Underhill tells Jim Fleming what malls do to get you to buy things.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Hana was a little girl killed in the Holocaust. Her suitcase came into the possession of a Japanese school teacher some 60 years later.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jerry Aronson spent a dozen years filming the great Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and produced a documentary called "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg."

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