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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eric Steel tells Steve Paulson that his crew filmed The Golden Gate Bridge every daylight minute for one year, and thus witnessed many suicides and even more attempts.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jon Ronson believes capitalism favors psychopaths and is creating more of them.  

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Clay Shirky is an internet expert and author of "Here Comes Everybody." He tells Steve Paulson how wide acceptance of social networking sites has dramatically changed our expectations of the media and even the role of journalism.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Brooks tells Steve Paulson the old ways of schools need to change.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Kilcullen was a top military advisor to General Petraeus during the troop surge in Iraq. He tells Anne Strainchamps that most counter-insurgency efforts fail because foreign armies usually galvanize opposition from local people.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carole Angier is the author of “”The Double Bond: Primo Levi, A Biography.”  Levi was a brilliant chemist who mined the world of chemistry for metaphors to help him process his experiences as a Holocaust survivor

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"The Angriest Man in the World", also known as "The Winnebago Man".

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.

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