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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When it comes to loyalty, dogs win. Now, new evidence suggests dogs and early humans formed an alliance 36,000 years ago.  Together, they drove Neanderthals to extinction, then invaded and conquered the rest of the planet. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chiori Miyagawa is a playwright in New York and teaches at Bard College. “Comet Hunter” is the story of Caroline Herschel who collaborated with her brother William during the 18th and early 19th centuries and made several important contributions to astronomy.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Tarahumara tribe of Mexico grow up running barefoot and live very long lives happily running into advanced old age...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

You wouldn’t think the novel “Lolita” would go over big in an underground women’s book club in Tehran. But literature, like the people who read it, has a way of surprising you.  Azar Nafizi is the author of the celebrated memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Elizabeth Samet teaches literature to future Army officers at West Point. She tells Jim Fleming why her class reads Wilfred Owen and Homer, and what lessons they draw from the poetry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Earl Scruggs talks with Steve Paulson about his long history in blue grass and country music.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Philosopher Colin McGinn talks about mental manipulation.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 Getting words, quotes, even lines of verse inked under the skin is more common that you think. There’s even a name for it: Literary Tattoos

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