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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Science researcher and author Clifford Pickover tells Steve Paulson that God may exist on the fringes of human perception.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Azadeh Moaveni talks about growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran.

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Cheeni Rao came from a successful Indian family and attended an elite American college. But he ended up a junkie on Chicago's South side.

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Are you feeling a little cynical? Maybe a little down? Have no fear, we have a documentary to cure what ails you. It’s called “The Gnomist.” As in garden gnomes. And if you think this is some sort of post modern ironic bait and switch you could be no further from the truth. Our producer Charles Monroe-Kane caught up with the film’s director, Sharon Liese, to find out what happened with garden gnomes along the Tomahawk Creek Trail in Overland Park, Kansas.  A place now dubbed The Firefly Forest.

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What's the oddest - or most delicious - translation of traditional food that you've sampled?

LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold has spent his career seeking out the best plates of authentic – or reinterpreted – culture. Anne Strainchamps asked him about food in translation.
 
Listen to the UNCUT interview here. We recommend having some snacks on hand!
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E.L. Doctorow's latest novel is called "The March" and is about the devastating effect on the South during the Civil War of General William Tecumseh Sherman.

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Coral reefs and many of the oceans' marvels may disappear before this century ends, according to a new scientific study. Science writer Elizabeth Kolbert says we're facing the sixth great extinction. In this extended interview, she tells Steve Paulson stories from the front lines of the fight against extinction, from Panama to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

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Anne talks with Chinese superstar Cui Jian about his new album.

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