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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Moskowitz makes political ads. Moskowitz tells Steve Paulson about how political ads are made and about the art of the attack ad.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonnie Hughes talks about about his book, "On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Psychiatrist Ned Kalin and psychologist Richard Davidson have found that cheerful people tend to have more left-brain activity while people with active right brains tend to be sad and pessimistic.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Earlier this year, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet handed over the last of his political power, to a secular, Harvard-educated politician. Lobsang Sangay left his fellowship and family in the United States to take up his new post, and all of its challenges.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Katy Lederer is a poet who used to manage a hedge fund. Her latest book is "The Heaven-Sent Leaf." She reads from it and talks about her work with Anne Strainchamps.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Cosmologist Janna Levin tells Steve Paulson that the universe may be shaped like a soccer ball, but it must be finite.  On the other hand, there could be many universes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

American cross country ski champion Nina Kemppel tells Jim Fleming that winning an Olympic medal matters to every athlete who competes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku tells Steve Paulson about the theory that our universe is the echo from the Big Bang of some other universe.

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