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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rick Riordan is the author of the wildly popular series of children's books featuring Percy Jackson - the dyslexic son of the god Poseidon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Stark, author of “Last Breath,” tells Steve Paulson about various narrow escapes adventurers have had from avalanches and bitter cold.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Economist Juliet Schor co-founded The Center for a New American Dream.  Among her many proposals to fix the economy:  create more jobs by adopting a 30-hour work week and 3-day weekend.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Davidson is a neuro-psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a longtime friend of the Dalai Lama. He tells Steve Paulson about observing contemplatives with a brain scanner.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

While the presidency so far has appeared to be a man's game, there is now the suggestion that women have shaped the job and the men from the very beginning.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Author and playwright Michael Frayn talks with Steve Paulson about his play “Copenhagen” and the dramatic meeting between physicists Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941. At issue is the degree to which Heisenberg was spying for the Nazis and his role in the development of a German atom bomb.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Got World Cup fever? Here's Roger Kittleson on how Brazilian politics, culture and passion is wrapped up in soccer.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thomas Louis Hardin is an internationally known and respected composer known for decades to New Yorkers as an eccentric street performer who dressed as a Viking and called himself "Moondog." Robert Scotto wrote his biography.

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