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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kelly Lambert tells Anne Strainchamps about her brain research into how using both hands on crafts projects can be as beneficial to the body as taking psychoactive medication.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist Neil Strauss tells Steve Paulson about the two years he spent with a group of pick up artists - men who share techniques about how to charm women.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What exactly happens in the brain when you “decide” to do something?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Penny Von Eschen tells Steve Paulson about the State Department's use of jazz musicians as a weapon in the cold war to win hearts and minds in the Third World.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Foreign policy analyst Robert Kagan tells Steve Paulson that Europeans and Americans have very different ideas about the value of military power. He says the Europeans’ reservations about invading Iraq are entirely legitimate.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Linguist Mike Hammond talks about made-up language games with Jim Fleming.  Going way beyond pig latin, we hear samples from “The Name Game,” as well as “ob” and “Geta.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this extended interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin discusses "Toms River" — his remarkable investigative story of industrial pollution in a New Jersey town — and why it's so difficult to prove the link between environmental toxins and cancer clusters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Linda Kohanov tells Anne Strainchamps horses can mirror the authentic feeling of their riders and help people process what’s going on under their social mask.

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