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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Keli Goff tells Steve Paulson that today's young Black voters don't look at politics through the lens of the Civil Rights Movement.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Storyteller Lorraine Johnson Coleman tells Anne Strainchamps about the various cultural traditions behind the breads found in Southern kitchens, and in her book.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peggy Orenstein tells Anne Strainchamps about “parasite singles” - young Japanese, mostly female, who reject the traditional life of marriage and children.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nadine Svoboda’s been all over the world listening to forests.  She records their sounds for the British Library Sound Archive.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Philippe Petit is the author of “To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk between the Twin Towers.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jody Lewen is the executive director of the Prison University Project, a degree-granting program for the inmates at San Quentin State Prison in California.  She's seen first hand the transformative power of knowledge and education and thinks the most important feature of higher education should be accessibility.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses his six-volume autobiographical novel, "My Struggle."

You could also listen to an extended interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicholas Carr believes the Internet is rewiring the human brain with its instant access to all sorts of information.  Are we losing our ability to focus on one thing for any length of time?

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