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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"The Alphabet of Manliness" is politically incorrect, testosterone-laden and deliberately outrageous – an example of "fratire.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Quaker writer, educator and activist Parker Palmer believes people need to listen to their inner voice in order to make the right life choices.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist Amanda Taub believes the political correctness backlash misses the point and glosses over real issues. In an article published in Vox.com, she argues that so-called political correctness is really about protecting and promoting marginalized voices.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If you like novels about computers and the history of technology, then you must know Neal Stephenson's work.  The author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle talks with us about his new novel -- a fast-paced thriller about the world of hyper-gaming.  It's called "Reamde."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Stoller is an anthropologist who studied sorcery with the Songhay people in Niger. Years later he developed lymphoma and only then did he understand some of what his teacher had been trying to teach him.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michelle Paver has had a lifelong fascination with the Stone Age. She's studied anthropology, and she's lived with the Inuit in Alaska and the Sami in Lapland. She used these experiences to write her series of novels, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.

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Can science finally answer the age-old mystery, how something can come out of nothing?  Physicist Lawrence Krauss says yes, and in the process he’s set off an intellectual brawl with theologians and philosophers.

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Near-death researcher Dr. Raymond Moody looks back on his career investigating near-death experiences.

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