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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Julia Whitty tells Jim Fleming about her life as a master diver and film-maker among the coral reefs in the South Pacific.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The way we think about happiness today is a thin, watery version of a deep and complex subject.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Not all illustrators agree on what to call graphic novels or when the first one appeared, but most agree that the man who brought them into the mainstream was Will Eisner.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Morgan Spurlock is the director of the documentary film “Super Size Me.”  He tells Jim Fleming about his experience of eating only at McDonald’s for a month.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sports Illustrated writer Jeff MacGregor spent a year on the NASCAR circuit and writes about it in "Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death!"

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy has written another incendiary book: "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Feeling lonely is a signal that we need to interact with others as fundamental to our well-being as signals like hunger and thirst.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Margaret MacMillan tells Jim Fleming how a lot of today’s troubles in the Middle East stem from the way the Versailles Treaty after the First World War carved up the Ottoman Empire with no consideration of the Arabs’ political aspirations.

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