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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Hannah Palin lives in Seattle and works as a film archivist. Her mother is retired and lives in Washington, D.C.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For his book "Evicted: Poverty And Profit In the American City," Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond spent more than a year living in some of Milwaukee's poorest black and white neighborhoods. He says evictions lock entire families into an endless cycle of poverty, and are far more common than they used to be.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

George Packer is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of “The Assassins’ Gate.” He’s just back from his fifth trip to Iraq...

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Before he was a crooner, BIng Crosby was totally hip and outsold Sinatra. But he couldn't make the jump to rock and roll.

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Kirk Lynn's debut novel "Rules for Werewolves" is the story of a group of young, homeless, angry kids running from their families and roaming the suburbs of Los Angeles like a pack of wolves. He says the story was partially inspired by his own experience breaking into homes during his wild teenage years.

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Animals: Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

How important is this discovery of hominin fossils in the Rising Star Cave?  Paleoanthropologist John Hawks says it overturns many of our assumptions about human prehistory, and also raises profound questions about what these human-like creatures thought about death and ritual.

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George Dyson grew up in the backyard of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where some of the most brilliant engineers and mathematicians in the world (including his parents) were building one of the first computers.  His new book, "Turing's Cathedral", is the story of their quest to build a working computer.

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