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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Musician and author Rae Spoon grew up as a girl. About ten years ago Rae came out as a transman. Then, a couple of years ago, they decided to retire... from gender.

You can also check out "Gender Failure" by Rae and Ivan E. Coyote.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this extended interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin discusses "Toms River" — his remarkable investigative story of industrial pollution in a New Jersey town — and why it's so difficult to prove the link between environmental toxins and cancer clusters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Intensive polling over several years in both countries shows that Americans and Canadians are developing differences in their social, political and moral attitudes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Natasha Trethewey read Miscegenation.

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

Neurologist Oliver Sacks is famous for his stories of people with brain disorders.  In his book "Musicophilia," he writes about people who were transformed by music. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Schweid loves eels.  He tells Steve Paulson that scientists know very little about their life cycle, but that their numbers seem to be declining.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.

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