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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Is Marina Chapman's story true?  Telegraph reporter Philip Sherwell traveled to Colombia to check on her remarkable story.  

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Richard Powers bookmarks "Objects and Empathy" by Arthur Saltzman.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Christine Kenneally tells Steve Paulson that Noam Chomsky thought language was hard-wired in the human brain, but later researchers have shown that its development is even more complex.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Evelin Sullivan, author of “The Concise Book of Lying,” talks with Steve Paulson about lies of necessity, little white lies, and what sort of deception really makes people angry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Criminologist Nils Christie's Dangerous Idea? Treat prisoners as people.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bryandt Urstadt tells Steve Paulson about the grim future the peak oilers are already getting ready for and thinks we should all buy gold.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Codebreaker, a new film by Patrick Sammon, tells the story of the brilliant life and tragic death of Alan Turing.  He died at age 41, having revolutionized our world by inventing the first computer programs -- and then computers themselves. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Tammet has memorized the number pi into the tens of thousands of digits.  He's learned new languages in a few weeks.  He describes the gift - and the burden - of being an autistic savant.

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