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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chuck Klosterman talks about his new book, "I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Cavicchi spent three years talking to his fellow  Bruce Springsteen fans. The result is a book called “Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Alba is a real rabbit, created in a lab and genetically modified to glow in the dark.  Eduardo Kac talks about the moral and ethical implications of art using living subjects.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bill Moyers has won 9 Peabody Awards and 30 Emmys, and now hosts a show on PBS.  His particular niche is exploring big ideas on television, as he did in his memorable series with myth-maker Joseph Campbell.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There are lots of ways we identify ourselves – where we come from, our race, our religion… but perhaps nothing shapes our identity more than whether we’re a man or a woman. But even that can get really complicated.  Independent producer Aubrey Ralph explains.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carel Van Schaik tells Steve Paulson that orangutans, those great red apes, use tools and pass learning down from one generation to the next.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

More people than ever before in US history are living alone. And they're living lives of fullment and social engagement.  Eric Klinenberg writes about the trend in "Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

As the Books Editor of Paste Magazine, Charles McNair cares deeply about what we read.  But McNair is concerned that we're only reading a handful of the artists available to us, thanks to what he calls a kind of geographic hegemony of taste-making.  In other words - we're all reading the same books because a handful of respected critics on the East and West coasts tell us to.  

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