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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kamran Pasha has written a novel called "Mother of the Believers." It's the story of Muhammad's third wife, Aisha, whom he married when she was very young.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Imagine a portable listening device you wear like a walkman that converts the sounds around you into a form of music. Noah Vawter developed one.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this final segment, we take a left turn to punk.

Richard Hell co-founded the band Television in the mid-70s. He also created a look and sound that would eventually be called “punk.” 

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Kurt Westergaard is the Danish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban in a Danish newspaper in 2005.

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Jonah Lehrer talks about his new book, "Imagine: How Creativity Works."

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Robert Bruggeman has a positive outlook on sprawl.  He says societies have always grown and ours looks the way it does because suburbs represent the way Americans like to live.

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With the militant group ISIS threatning the stability of Iraq, we're thinking about sectarianism in the country. To get some context on the divide between Iraqi Sunnis, Shias and Kurds, we turn to David Rohde. He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Beyond War: Reimagining America's Role and Ambitions in a New Middle East.

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Marita Golden tells Jim Fleming about the pernicious influence of “colorism” within the Black community.

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