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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dave Perry is the game developer who worked with the Wachowski brothers to create the videogame for “The Matrix Reloaded.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

James Dawes interviewed a collection of convicted war criminals from the Second Sino-Japanese War.  Today, they are "sweet old men" searching for forgiveness.  Do they deserve it?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Pir Zubair Shah risked his life to report from Waziristan -- a Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan -- where he was detained by both the Taliban and government forces. He spoke to Jim Fleming about the dangers of reporting from that region of Pakistan. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dan Shapiro tells the story of his long fight with Hodgkin’s Disease which prompted his mother to cultivate marijuana to help him cope with the nausea of chemotherapy.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Hillman almost lost his chance for a PhD when his doctoral committee questioned the part of his dissertation on recreational drug use in antiquity.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sci-fi writer Eileen Gunn bookmarks Nisi Shawl's "Filter House."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charles Limb is a surgeon and musician who researches the way creativity works in the brain. He puts jazz musicians inside an fMRI to find out what the brain does during musical improvisation.

Watch Charles Limb's TED Talk here

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

TTBOOK producer Doug Gordon investigates one of surf rock’s zaniest modern acts, Los Straitjackets to find out what’s happening with their surf rock sound.

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