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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

You're either funny, or you're not. Right? 

At Chicago's Second City training center, you can learn to get more giggle. 

Matt Hovde runs the training center, and gives us a crash course in comedy.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Choreogapher Bill T. Jones recommends Lawrence Weschler's "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

As Dan Pierotti's health worsens, and the end of his life nears, Dan and his wife confront questions about quality of life and saying goodbye.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bill McKibben has been warning us about global warming since his 1989 book "The End of Nature." In his new Book, "Deep Economy," he makes the case that "more" does not lead to a happier life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brian Greene is a physicist who specializes in string theory. Greene says that time appears to move in one direction only to complex organisms like people. At the atomic level, electrons don’t know one direction from another.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neurologist Dave Soldier collaborated with scientist Richard Lair to teach elephants to play music. They’ve released the results of the Thai Elephant Orchestra.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Candacy Taylor is an award-winning photographer, writer and visual artist.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Goldmark talks with Jim Fleming about the use of music in animation.

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