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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist and writer Marc Barasch tells Anne Strainchamps about the dreams he claims saved his life. His book is “Healing Dreams.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If evolution is a game called survival of the fittest, how do you explain altruism? The “altruism equation” is a mathematical rule discovered by George Price...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of several novels and two collections of widely anthologized short stories...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye talks with Anne Strainchamps about the effects of the violence in Iraq and the Middle-East on the children who see it everyday.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Dowie tells Steve Paulson about a recent confrontation between a Masai leader and several thousand environmentalists gathered for a conference.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What are the basic buildings blocks of the universe?  Some physicists now say they're not subatomic particles or even the laws of physics, but information itself.  Physicist Paul Davies explains.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jill Sprecher is an optimist while her sister Karen is a pessimist.  Or is it the other way around?  Jill directed “Thirteen Conversations About One Thing” while Karen wrote the screenplay.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicholas Shakespeare tells Steve Paulson that Chatwin was a man of mystery and paradox who was willing to toy with the strictly factual to preserve an emotional truth.  We also hear travel writer Paul Theroux comment on Chatwin, a long-time friend.

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