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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Don Gurnett has been working with NASA, recording audio from space for years. He plays some of his favorite space sounds for Jim Fleming and explains where they come from.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Olivia Laing's Dangerous Idea? Loneliness is a gift.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Cultural historian Ed Linenthal has written a book called “The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory.” He tells Anne Strainchamps that the emotional impact of acts of terrorism is immense, widespread and enduring.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

TTBOOK Technical Director Caryl Owen explains why she’s always been fascinated by rocks and the language of geology.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Psychologist Daniel Goleman talks about "Emotional Intelligence."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

China Miéville´s new novel is called "Embassytown."  It features aliens that speak a strange language in a strange way -- with two voices simultaneously.  Miéville spoke with Anne Strainchamps about "Embassytown."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Angie da Silva is a historian of black cultural life in the United States, going back to the Civil War. She collects stories, both through oral history and archival research. But she's not merely a writer. She brings these stories to life through historical reenactment, often as a slave character she's created named Lila.  She says that the stories she hears and tells are too often left out of our history books.

In this interview, she talks about her work and tells the story of Mary Meachum, a free black abolitionist who worked on the Mississippi in St. Louis.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Father Abuna Elias Chacour is a Palestinian, Arab, Christian Israeli. He runs the Mar Elias Interfaith Institution, which teaches students up to 50 years old principles of religious toleration.

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