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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Environmentalist Bill McKibben believes it's time for a new environmental paradigm:  small and local.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

MP3 formatting compresses audio so that the file becomes 75 to 95 percent smaller. But what are we missing?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Punk legend Patti Smith.  40 years ago, she came out with the seminal punk album Horses –with cover photo by her friend and lover Robert Mappelthorpe.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chang's new novel follows the lives of students and one particular professor in a creative writing program in the Midwest.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Nelson hikes through the Alaskan wilderness recording sounds you can't hear anywhere else, and he plays excerpts during this conversation with Anne Strainchamps.

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Robert Ferris Thompson muses about the movements of the tango and all the passions they express.

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Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon’s new memoir, “Girl in a Band,” is on our minds this week. The book chronicles the influential band’s career and the end of the marriage between Gordon and fellow co-founder Thurston Moore after 27 years.

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Karen Levine talks with Anne Strainchamps about “Hana’s Suitcase.” Hana Brady perished as a child in a Nazi death camp.

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