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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kate Lebo is The Pie Poet.  She runs a pastry academy and writer's studio called The Pie School, She's published poetry about pies and a pie cookbook.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What exactly happens in the brain when you “decide” to do something?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lars Svendsen talks with Anne Strainchamps about boredom's long, long history. Or maybe it just seems that way.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mukoma Wa Ngugi is a poet and English professor who writes crime novels set in his native Kenya.  He says the crime genre lets him write truthfully about race, class and violence in cities like Nairobi.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Science writer John Horgan talks with Jim Fleming about scientists who are using the tools and techniques of science to try to discover evidence of God. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kate La Riviere-Gagner's Dangerous Idea? There should be a reality show to give people a better idea of what a day in the life of a teacher is like.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Dunn's book, “Ella Minnow Pea,” explores what happens when individual letters begin to be expunged from the language. It’s a technical tour de force since the author labors under the same restrictions as his characters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mitch Horowitz tells Anne Strainchamps that belief in the occult is as old as the colonies and that spiritualism was America's first great religious export.

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