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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Po Bronson talks with Steve Paulson about some of the families he met who managed to keep their families intact, despite hard times.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anthropologist Richard Wrangham tells Jim Fleming that he thinks cooking contributed to human evolution and is far older than most people think.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio tracked down seven former dictators living in exile around the world.  He talks about what it was like to meet and talk with them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Leyner talks to Jim Fleming about his mind-bending, synapse-shattering new novel, "The Sugar Frosted Nutsack."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Krugman won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics and teaches at Princeton. His latest book is "The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Dirda tells Anne Strainchamps that modern readers of Beowulf owe a great deal to J.R.R. Tolkien.

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Neuro-scientist  Robert Provine, author of “Laughter: A Scientific Investigation,” tells Steve Paulson about a two year laughing jag in Tanzania.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Taliaferro is the author of “Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mt. Rushmore.”

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