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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Gram Rabbit is a rock band whose members live in the Joshua Tree Desert.  Their CD is called "Music to Start a Cult to."

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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Did you hear about our sci-fi short fiction contest? If you want some inspiration, here's Junot Diaz on why he's a big sci-fi fan.

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

Novelist Jane Hamilton and her husband grow and sell apples on their farm in Wisconsin...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Episcopal priest Matthew Fox tells Steve Paulson why the belief in Original Sin is destructive and leads to a culture of pessimism.

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

Mark Robert Rank tells Steve Paulson that American society is structured to accept a certain amount of poverty but that other capitalist societies have chosen to do things differently. 

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