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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Many people don't know that the voice of Bart Simpson is really Nancy Cartwright.  She started doing voices in her early teens, and credits Daws Butler with teaching her to be an actor with her voice.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Some of the country's leading neuro-biologists are collaborating with Buddhist monks in an effort to understand the effects of meditation on the mind and the brain.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Plant biologist Nicholas Harberd took a year off to study a common weed - the thalecress - that  he found growing in a country churchyard.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Three physicists just won the Nobel Prize for their discovery that the universe is rapidly expanding.  

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

So, what is gender anyhow? Philosopher Judith Butler has been unpacking our notions of "he," "she" and "we" for the past 20 years. She stopped in to help us take stock of the state of gender in the North America.

Hear the extended interview, here.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kerry O. Burns talks with Judith Strasser and performs excerpts from his one-man show “Markings of the Soul.”  The play tells the story of Kerry and his gay brother, Tim.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nuala O’Faolain tells Jim Fleming one of her novels is based on an adulterous affair across class lines in Ireland during the potato famine.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Headley talks about his book, "Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology."

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