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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Not all cavemen are in the past. The Modern Caveman Movement involves men in urban gyms, grunting and sprinting on all fours, lifting heavy stones, and running barefoot.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Psychiatrist Charles Grob is studying how psilocybin — the psychoactive component of magic mushrooms - can reduce death anxiety for end-stage cancer patients. His results, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, show that giving psilocybin to terminally ill people may help patients anxiety and depression about the end of end of life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dalton Conley grew up in the housing projects of New York's lower East Side. But he went to school in a wealthy white neighborhood. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Donald Sassoon tells Jim Fleming that the Mona Lisa is a great painting, but that other factors conspired to make it an international icon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Katha Pollitt's Dangerous Idea?  Your child is not a special snowflake.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Edmund Morris says Theodore Roosevelt was a force of nature  - man of towering intellect, boundless physical energy and firm convictions whose greatest achievement as President was his commitment to conservation.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charles Dwyer on art with his homeless neighbor - Jerry Pfeil.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If there is an evolutionary imperative for running, maybe runner's high holds a clue. Dave Raichlen conducted a study about runner's high using humans, dogs and ferrets. 

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