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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We've turned our hearts over to software; 30 million Americans have online dating profiles. About one-fifth of all new relationships in North America start with people meeting online. 

So far, the algorithms don't seem to know much more than we do, about what we're looking for.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dean Sluyter is a film critic and meditation teacher who combined his interests to write "Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dr. Ted Kaptchuk tells Steve Paulson about the work of some Danish researchers who have concluded that “the Placebo effect” is a myth.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Craig Harline tells Anne Strainchamps how Sunday has evolved over the past several centuries.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Elizabeth Lunbeck’s Dangerous Idea is narcissism is good.

 

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Tammett loves numbers, can do calculations in his head into the millions, and can recite pi to more than 22,000 digits. But he has trouble telling right from left and looking people in the eye.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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. She tells stories from the front lines of the fight against extinction, from Panama to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

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David Edmonds talks with Jim Fleming about Bobby Fischer’s infamous chess match with Boris Spassky for the World Chess Championship in 1972.

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