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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

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

In an essay called "Fail," Chuck Klosterman examines the thinking behind the so-called "Unabomber Manifesto."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Do physicists think about End Times? Noted string theorist Brian Greene does. He looks into the far future - billions of years from now - and sees a very dark universe.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Edward Larson tells Steve Paulson what makes the Islands unique, and why they inspired Charles Darwin to write “The Origin of Species."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Flash mobs: seemingly random gatherings of complete strangers doing something completely out of the ordinary. Bill Wasik started this craze.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Environmental writer Connie Barlow says that rhinos and elephants and tigers are native to North America and that we should bring back the Cheetah.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Davy Rothbart is the founder and editor of “Found” Magazine. He reads some samples of the notes and lists he’s found and talks about them with Jim Fleming

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