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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nina Simonds tells Jim Fleming about dining at Singapore's Imperial Herbal restaurant, where the staff herbalist prescribes a meal for you aimed at balancing your yin and yang.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anthropoligst Anne Allison talks about our love affair with Japanese pop culture.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Maria Tatar is the author of "Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood." She talks with Steve Paulson about what makes fairy tales so compelling to children.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Breaking the law by singing "Happy Birthday"? That's absurd.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Weinberg tells Jim Fleming that superheroes’ powers haven’t kept up with the times and offers more up-to-date explanations of how The Incredible Hulk got that way and why Superman is so strong.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

James Finney Boylan had gender re-assignment surgery in his 40s and is now Jennifer Finney Boylan.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Columnist Maureen Dowd says that a lot of people still don’t understand that a columnist is supposed to have a point of view.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lincoln Hall is an Australian mountain climber. He tells Jim Fleming about his fatal adventure on Mt. Everest, the subject of his book "Dead Lucky: Life after Death on Mount Everest."

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