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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Philosopher Samuel Scheffler bookmarks "The Children of Men" by P.D. James.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A Pakistan school is de-radicalizing  Taliban boy soldiers, many of whom were forcibly recruited.  Psychologist Feriha Peracha directs the experimental program.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Azhar Usman is a Muslim stand-up comic and part of the "Allah Made Me Funny" Comedy Troupe.  He tells Jim Fleming that he sees himself as belonging to a long tradition of socially conscious comedians.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bryant Urstadt is a freelance writer from Connecticut. He wrote "Imagine There's No Oil: Scenes from the Liberal Apocalypse" for Harper's Magazine.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Agriculture already shapes the globe. With food insecurity growing around the globe, the unpredictabilities of climate change and population growth booming... what will we eat in the future? 

Jonathan Foley heads the Global Landscape Initiative at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Physicist Leonard Mlodinow and spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra debate their conflicting worldviews on science and the origins of consciousness.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Contemplating the multiverse is mind-blowing, but if you want a truly earth-shattering controversy in physics, you have to go back 500 years to Copernicus' radical theory.  Dava Sobel tells his story.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian David Blight tells Jim Fleming that popular memory of the Civil War all but obliterated the liberation of Black Americans.

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