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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Matthew Johnson founded Far Possum Records to preserve the Delta and Hill Country blues he loves.  Now he produces recordings which feature hip-hop and techno style re-mixes of his classic recordings.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Ross talks recounts the nightmare of being kidnaped, along with a group of tourists he was guiding, by armed rebels in Uganda.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We share the mysterious story of the listener who sent us postcards in response to our show about handwriting.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Updike talks with Steve Paulson about the business of being interviewed.  Updike is skittish about giving interviews, but often finds himself saying more than he’d planned once he gets going.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Physicist Janna Levin tells Steve Paulson why she wanted to write about mathematicians Alan Turing and Kurt Godel, and why her book is a novel.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If your mind is nothing more than brain chemistry, do you have free will? In this EXTENDED interview, cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga says new brain science should change our thinking about this old philosophical question.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wisconsin Public Radio's Jim Fleming provides an essay about memory and his aging father.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Joseph Persico tells Jim Fleming that Roosevelt loved the thrilling, clandestine aspects of espionage, and had to learn to appreciate the advantages of electronic spying.

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