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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bill Siemering, NPR’s first Director of Programming and President of Developing Radio Partners, tells Steve Paulson how communities in the developing world are using radio as a community development tool.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Every year TED awards a prize and in 2012 it didn't go to a person, but to an idea: The City 2.0

Anderson explains why, and what the prize makes possible.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The end of money. Really?  Are we really on the verge of a coming cashless society?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Are humans really unique?  Not as much as we tend to think, says renowned primatologist Frans de Waal.  In this EXTENDED, UNCUT interview, de Waal tells Steve Paulson about the emotional & moral lives of chimpanzees and bonobos.  This interview was done in partnership with the new science and culture magazine Nautilus.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Junot Diaz bookmarks "Dark Reflections" by Samuel R. Delany.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Levitin reacts to a musical example Anne Strainchamps provides and talks about music and children's brains.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anthony Shadid won two Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of the war in Iraq.  He knows the violence of war. As he told Steve Paulson, he also knows, that when the war ends, unintended consequences follow.

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