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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Cordani is CEO of Dyn-O-Mat. He invents things.  Like Dyn-O-Storm - a polymer gel that can be sprayed on clouds to make them go away.

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Oklahoma is famous for tornados.  And the safest place to be in a tornado is a basement, right?  Well  in Oklahoma, they don’t have many basements.  In fact, only 3 percent of homes have them.  Why?  Because people in Oklahoma think you can’t build basements in their soil.

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Piri Thomas is best known for his classic memoir “Down These Mean Streets.”  Now in his mid-70's, Thomas is still active as an educator and activist with juvenile offenders.

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Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian lawyer who's written a memoir called "Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine."

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Authors Pico Iyer and Jonathan Lethem talk with Steve Paulson about the enduring legacy of noir-writer Raymond Chandler.

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Oscar Robertson is one of the all-time great basketball players. He talks with Steve Paulson about his constant struggle against racism during his playing years.

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Australian poet Les Murray is considered by many critics to be the greatest poet in the English language today. Steve Paulson sat down with Les Murray for a rare interview.

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Taking pictures of war is complicated. The late philosopher Susan Sontag thought a lot about the moral implications of taking and looking at photos of human conflict. She wrote a classic book on the subject, called “Regarding the Pain of Others.”  We're revisiting our interview with her, about how to see and think about photography.

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