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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

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

Rivka Galchen finished her MD and MFA degrees. Now she's published her first novel, "Atmospheric Disturbances."

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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Winter. I am getting sick of this winter. It’s hard to get around. I’m never outside. I hate scraping and shoveling. . . And, I’m cold. And most likely you are cold too.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jim Fleming provides an essay on the recent death of his mother.

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

Justin O. Schmidt has been stung by nearly every insect with a stinger, from the benign honeybee to the viscious tarantula hawk wasp. He is a research biologist and professor at the University of Arizona school of Entomology and he told Steve Paulson about his creation, the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.

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