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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There’s one devil we NEVER sympathize with: the terrorist.  But... Hold on.  Not so fast, says filmmaker Marshall Curry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Linda Kohanov tells Anne Strainchamps horses can mirror the authentic feeling of their riders and help people process what’s going on under their social mask.

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Mitchell Joaquim and the Terreform 1 team are looking for new, organic ways of building homes… and cities. About 4 billion of us live in cities right now. Predictions are, by the end of this century, that number will be closer to 8 billion. That means, for the foreseeable future, we need to build the equivalent of a city of one million people EVERY WEEK... How?

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How's this for a novel premise? Owen Lerner is a pediatric psychiatrist. One day, he's struck by lightning. He survives but he has a new obsession -- with barbecue. That's the premise behind Mary Kay Zuravleff's novel, "Man Alive!" She talks about its inspiration and the book's themes.

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So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex. 

Sometimes, it's also about love.

So now for an even larger question: what the heck is love?

Psyhchologist Barbara Fredrickson's says love is more brief - and more available - than we think it is.

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Mark Barrowcliffe wasted his youth playing Dungeons and Dragons. Now he's turned his obsession into a book.

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Biographer Joan Schenkar thinks Patricia Highsmith deserves to be recognized as the author of one of the great American novels.

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Freshman Representative Joe Walsh is considered the unofficial spokesman for the “no compromise” faction of the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. 

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