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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jim Fleming talks with Jonathan Lethem about Dick whom Lethem calls “science fiction’s Lenny Bruce.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Marcus Du Sautoy talks with Jim Fleming about prime numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis and why it’s such an important puzzle for mathematicians.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rocker Nick Cave talks with Steve Paulson about the relative freedom of writing prose versus song-writing...

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

Paco Underhill tells Jim Fleming what malls do to get you to buy things.

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

Is mathematics what's most real in the universe?  MIT physicist Max Tegmark thinks so, and he says it's likely we live in one of many parallel universes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 Reverend Jamie Coots was a snake handler and Pentecostal preacher in Middlesboro, Kentucky.   He died this past Saturday, when the rattlesnake he was handling during a church service bit him.

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