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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rob Brezsny is a poet, musician, astrologer and the author of “Pronoia Is the Antidote to Paranoia.” He tells Anne Strainchamps that pronoia sees the world as fundamentally friendly...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

British journalist Jay Griffiths talks with Jim Fleming about the ways different cultures around the world think about time.  Her book is “A Sideways Look at Time.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Marian Marzinski tells host Jim Fleming about his new documentary “Patriots Day”, which tells the tale of Revolutionary War reenactors at the battle of Lexington & Concord.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Wright tells Steve Paulson that the history of monotheism was shaped by the political events of the turbulent ancient Middle East and that Jesus was not a prophet of peace but a typical Jewish apocalyptic preacher obsessed with the approaching End Times.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Patricia O'Conner tells Jim Fleming that what Americans think of as a British accent is a fairly recent development.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jessica Helfand tells Jim Fleming that people constructed unique personal narratives out of whatever materials were at hand, long before there was a scrapbooking business to help them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For centuries, the oddities of nature - like two-headed cats and conjoined twins - fascinated people.  Science historian Lorraine Daston says a history of wonders is to some degree a history of pre-modern science.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake may wield more power over the economy than anyone else, even though he was never elected.  Washington Post journalist Neil Irwin takes us inside the elite club of the world's leading central bankers.

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