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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Linda Kohanov tells Anne Strainchamps horses can mirror the authentic feeling of their riders and help people process what’s going on under their social mask.

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Marion Winik muses on macaroni and cheese, and the lessons it can teach parents - and kids - about giving.

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Mitchell Joaquim and the Terreform 1 team are looking for new, organic ways of building homes… and cities. About 4 billion of us live in cities right now. Predictions are, by the end of this century, that number will be closer to 8 billion. That means, for the foreseeable future, we need to build the equivalent of a city of one million people EVERY WEEK... How?

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So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex. 

Sometimes, it's also about love.

So now for an even larger question: what the heck is love?

Psyhchologist Barbara Fredrickson's says love is more brief - and more available - than we think it is.

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Freshman Representative Joe Walsh is considered the unofficial spokesman for the “no compromise” faction of the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. 

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 Judith Claire MItchell's first novel  “The Last Day of the War” is set just after World War I, when Europe's peace brokers decided to ignore the Armenian massacres.  She talks about the painful legacy of that decision, 100 years later.

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Paul Berman has written for The New Republic and the New York Times Magazine. His new book is “Terror and Liberalism.” He says that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq is the intellectual heir of traditional fascist movements

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Historian Michael Oren talks with Steve Paulson about how the Barbary Pirates brought the Marines to the shores of Tripoli and why they went into the Middle East six times during the 19th century.

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