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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A few weeks after Dan's funeral, his wife Judy talks about how she's dealing with his absence, and how she wants to remember him.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 Samuel Delany’s review of “Call me Ishmael” by Charles Olson.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Do physicists think about End Times? Noted string theorist Brian Greene does. He looks into the far future - billions of years from now - and sees a very dark universe.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Margolick is the author of “Strange Fruit,” a history of the revolutionary Billie Holiday song. Margolick tells Jim Fleming who wrote the song, what happened the first time Holiday sang it, and what it’s lasting impact has been.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Thorpe is a filmmaker who went in search of his voice. Specifically, he wanted to know why he and many other gay men ended up markers of a "gay voice"—one with precise enunciation and sibilant "s" sounds. He spoke with his family and several speech therapists to better understand, control, and inhabit his voice.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Belquis Ahmadi is Afghan, Sameena Nazir is Pakistani.  They tell Steve Paulson why Afghans welcomed the Taliban at first, what happened when they revealed their hidden agenda of oppressing women and controlling education.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carl Honore talks with Anne Strainchamps about how the Slowness movement got started and how it's developed into a revolution.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Augustin De la Pena is a psycho-physiologist who works at a sleep disorders center in South Texas, and a leading authority on boredom.

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