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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

Dewey Sadka, creator of the Dewey Color System, claims you can identify your personality by dissecting your favorite and least favorite colors.  Doug Gordon puts himself up for analysis.

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

Photographer Sarah Sudhoff has been intrigued by mortality for almost as long as she can remember. She's made art out of out of disease, hospitals, funeral homes. In her series, At The Hour of Our Death, she's taking an close look at death.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Conn Iggulden wrote "The Dangerous Book for Boys" with his brother, Hal. The idea is not to injure children but to help them have more fun.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carl Honore tells Jim Fleming that several countries have societies which promote a slower, more relaxed approach to life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Stephan Eirik Clark's Dangerous Idea? Subdivide the United States into smaller countries.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Reporter Charles Monroe-Kane visits one of the last surviving grist mills in the US. He learns how water power is used to grind wheat into flour, and learns something about himself as well.

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