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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

Maybe the silver lining to any break-up is the soundtrack. You get the sad songs and the sorry songs. When you're tired of tears on your pillow and ready to revive, there are the angry break-up songs.

In this EXTENDED interview with producer Sara Nics, Jason Saldanha and Robin Linn of WBEZ's Sound Opinions talk blame, revenge and moving on.

WARNING: In this extended version, there is profanity in some of the lyrics.

Want to see the full list of suggested break-up song? Here it is.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped in Somalia and held for 460 days.  She believes the key to her survival and healing is learning to forgive her kidnappers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Philosopher David Chalmers is famous for outlining the "hard problem of consciousness."  He says the materialist framework of science will never be able to explain subjective experience. 

You can listen to the EXTENDED interview - and find the transcript - here.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Christine Wicker tells Anne Strainchamps about some of the witches, elves, vampires  and other oddities she met.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Olivia Laing's Dangerous Idea? Loneliness is a gift.

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Cheng-Sim Lim knows her kung—fu movies. She’s the curator of “Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film” at UCLA’S Film and Television archive

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Legal scholar Cass Sunstein believes humans are innately irrational.

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