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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 

Food is certainly the most palatable expression of culture, and the most easily shared.
 
LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold has spent his career seeking out the best plates of authentic – or reinterpreted - culture. In this UNCUT interview, he talks with Anne Strainchamps about food in translation.
 
It'll get your stomach growling, so have some snacks handy!
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Writer and activist Yasmin Nair's Dangerous Idea? Writers should always 

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Kenneth Helphand tells Jim Fleming how a photo of a French soldier tending a rose bush in a trench during WWI resulted in his book.

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Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis talks about "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."

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Lada Adamic is one of a host of data scientists working at facebook. Anne Strainchamps wanted to know what all those sociologists are up to.

Check out Facebook's social science website.

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What's it like to hang out with the U.S. president?  Journalist Michael Lewis found out when he shadowed Barack Obama for 8 months, even playing in one of Obama's pick-up basketball games. 

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Judy Pascoe tells Steve Paulson about her novel “Our Father Who Art in a Tree.”  A young girl’s father dies unexpectedly, but she finds his spirit lives in the backyard tree.

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Philippe Petit is the author of “To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk between the Twin Towers.”

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