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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Musue Haddad of Liberia went on a two-day trip to visit her parents in 1989. While she was on this trip, civil war broke out in her country.  Haddad has not seen her parents or the rest of her family since.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jason Soares is a member of the band "Aspects of Physics", whose music has to do with the mathematics of the ratios of how we assign tones into scales in music.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Marla Cilley tells Anne Strainchamps that an orderly house begins with a clean, shiny kitchen sink, and that women should wear lace up shoes so that they’re ready for anything.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Philip Harvey tells Jim Fleming about using the profits from his porn business to underwrite his philanthropy.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leigh and Leslie Keno are identical twin brothers and antiques appraisers.  They talk with Jim Fleming about their lifelong love affair with treasure hunting.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Have you ever read the Declaration of Independence? You'll find it's a surprisingly radical manifesto even today, as we struggle with income inequality and racial justice. Political philosopher Danielle Allen says reading the Declaration has actually changed the lives of her students.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jerome Wakefield tells Steve Paulson how the medical profession's attempts to make precise diagnoses have led them to define emotional states as medical conditions.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist Linda Ellerbee remembers buying oranges in Afghanistan, visiting Vietnam a generation after the war, and bathing in the Mediterranean to mark the passing of Julia Child.

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