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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Neuwirth tells Steve Paulson about the process by which people acquire and improve dwellings in the world's cities even when they don't own land.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"See them before they're gone" is the Lanza family's motto.  Michael Lanza describes his quest to take his two young kids -- ages 7 and 9 -- to as many wilderness locations as possible, to see glaciers and icebergs and coral reefs, before climate change destroys them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Pagan Kennedy is the author of “Black Livingstone,” a biography of 19th century black American missionary William Sheppard.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Levinson is the author of "Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium." He talks to Jim Fleming about his friendship with McLuhan and the man's work.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Margaret MacMillan tells Jim Fleming how a lot of today’s troubles in the Middle East stem from the way the Versailles Treaty after the First World War carved up the Ottoman Empire with no consideration of the Arabs’ political aspirations.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What’s happening in our brains when we talk or sing or play music? Are language and music different neural processes? Neuroscientist Charles Limb peaks into the mind of a particular kind of musician... rappers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Perhaps one of the most obvious and important cultural divides in the United States is between the political right and left.

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Steve Paulson about his research into the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republican, and how we might begin to speak across the gap.
 
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Reality TV manipulates the lives of its participants but we watch it anyway. Why are we so hooked?

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