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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is fascinated by the way memory shapes our sense of self.  But he says our memories can be quite different from what we actually experience.

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Bond got scared when he received a letter from the government saying they'd lost his newborn daughter's data. He decided to see if he could disappear himself.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Jill Lepore talks about her restless search for the long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time."  It ran some nine million words and was supposedly the work of a madman named Joe Gould, who believed he was the 20th century's most brilliant historian.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Erik Durschmied tells Steve Paulson about some of the significant battles throughout history that turned on a change in the weather.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dr. Mark Clanton talks with Jim Fleming about new directions in cancer research and the new targeted treatment drugs.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

An algorithm might not be able to spit out a chart-topping song —at least not yet—but it might be able to help you write a best-selling novel.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The average American voter is NOT smarter than a 5th grader, doesn't understand basic political facts and should probably not be allowed to vote. Philosopher Jason Brennan makes the case for an epistocracy: the rule of the knowledgeable.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Poet Steve Roggenbuck BookMarks "Feminism is for Everybody" by Bell Hooks.

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