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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rapper Baba Brinkman tells Anne Strainchamps that Geoffrey Chaucer’s work has a lot in common with the language of hip hop music.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

One of the most enduring questions about Coke is does it contain cocaine? Or did it used to? Bart Elmore has the answers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

How accurate is Barack Obama’s memoir Dreams from My Father?  In this UNCUT interview, Steve Paulson talks with acclaimed biographer David Maraniss about Obama’s real coming-of-age story, his struggle with racial identity and his early political ambitions.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Betsy Lerner tells Anne Strainchamps about her long history with Overeaters Anonymous, bi-polar disorder, depression, psychiatric hospitalization and binge eating.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Of course, After the Romance can also come break-ups. The silver-lining to any break-up? The soundtrack.

Robin Linn and Jason Saldanha of Sound Opinions join producer Sara Nics to talk about songs of rage, revenge and moving on.

Looking for the full list of suggested break-up song? Here it is.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Don Foster tells Anne Strainchamps how he uses computer-assisted textual analysis to prove or disprove authorship of literary texts.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ellen Prager wants you to care about the oceans. She’s a writer and former chief scientist of the Aquarius Reef Base, the world’s only undersea research station. Her latest book is called “Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime."  She says we ignore the oceans at our own peril.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sarah Manguso recommends "Mes Amis" by Emmanuel Bove.

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