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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kate Lebo is The Pie Poet.  She runs a pastry academy and writer's studio called The Pie School, She's published poetry about pies and a pie cookbook.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Moustafa Bayoumi talks with Jim Fleming about how 9/11 caused him to feel like an outsider in his own country.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Foreign policy analyst Robert Kagan tells Steve Paulson that Europeans and Americans have very different ideas about the value of military power. He says the Europeans’ reservations about invading Iraq are entirely legitimate.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Earlier this year, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet handed over the last of his political power, to a secular, Harvard-educated politician. Lobsang Sangay left his fellowship and family in the United States to take up his new post, and all of its challenges.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Updike is celebrated as a novelist but is also an essayist and art critic.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Justin O. Schmidt has been stung by nearly every insect with a stinger, from the benign honeybee to the viscious tarantula hawk wasp. He is a research biologist and professor at the University of Arizona school of Entomology and he told Steve Paulson about his creation, the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jim Fleming provides an essay on the recent death of his mother.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Musician and author Rae Spoon grew up as a girl. About ten years ago Rae came out as a transman. Then, a couple of years ago, they decided to retire... from gender.

You can also check out "Gender Failure" by Rae and Ivan E. Coyote.

 

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