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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Patricia O'Conner tells Jim Fleming that what Americans think of as a British accent is a fairly recent development.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Maurice Sendak has written and narrates a story called "Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale."  It's based on Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf".

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Where does obsessive collecting come from? And what does it mean? Lorraine Daston takes us back to 17th century Europe and the nobility’s Kunstkamera, or chambers of wonders.  They were filled with nature’s freaks and anomalies.  But these marvels, these monsters, gave birth to modern science.

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Robbie Fulks talks to Doug Gordon about his latest album, "Georgia Hard," and his former identity as a staff songwriter for a Nashville music publisher.

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 Jon Hein uses the term “jump-the-shark” to describe the precise moment when things begin to go bad. 

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Richard Goldstein, executive editor of the Village Voice, is appalled by the rampant chauvinism of popular culture.

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Pearl S. Buck’s last novel, “ The Eternal Wonder”  was discovered last year in a storage locker in Texas. Anne Strainchamps talked with her son and literary executor, Edgar Walsh, about his mother’s life and legacy and her difficult last years. 

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Poderopedia's goal is to make those connections more transparent.  It’s a crowd-sourced map of business and political power in Chile.

 

CLICK HERE FOR A VIDEO IN ENGLISH EXPLAINING PODEROPEDIA.

HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA VER UN VIDEO EN ESPANOL QUE EXPLICA PODEROPEDIA.
 

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