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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Marcia Bartusiak tells Anne Strainchamps about the race to document the existence of gravity waves - Einstein’s last prediction.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mary Wells Lawrence thought up some of the most clever and memorable ad campaigns of her generation. Her memoir is “A Big Life in Advertising.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Santos is an exponent of Afro-Latin music and leader of the jazz group John Santos and Machete.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Author Jonathan Lethem talks to Jim Fleming about his "Harper's" Magazine essay, "The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We asked you to share memories and stories of your most precious saved handwriting.  Here's some of what you told us.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A few brief dramatized snippets from Olivia Judson and her book “Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Hoffman is the author of “Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight.”  Hoffman tells Jim Fleming that Santos-Dumont’s craft (which he tethered to a light-post outside Maxim’s while he had dinner) was a motorized hot air balloon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In constructing his history of non-violence, Mark Kurlansky looks at history with a revisionist's eye and tells Steve Paulson that WWII might not have been necessary.

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