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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Myhrvold talks about inventing and his six-volume, 2400-page, 52 pound cookbook called Modernist Cuisine.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

How do young people in Burma use karaoke as a form of political protest?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Have you had culture shock? Did it hit when you were travelling or when you were at home?

Writer Josh Swiller says, as a young man, he often felt outside his home culture. 
 
He decided to leave the U.S. altogether and found a whole new world of challenging inter-cultural communication.
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Krugman wrote an article called “For Richer” for the New York Times Magazine. He tells Steve Paulson that there is a widening chasm between the super rich and the rest of us.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham says the big question is WHEN did we become human? He tells Steve Paulson it's clearly when we started cooking.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Margaret Atwood says it's a mistake to think about debt as simply a matter of money. Debt is embedded in our psyche and rife in our literary and religious history.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The WPA built 650 thousand miles of highways and employed 8 and a half million people. We explore its legacy

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize winning senior editor of the Washington Post’s Bookworld has written a memoir called “An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland.”

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