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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

So your future self’s woken up at home on this weekday in 2055. Time for work, right?

But what kind of work? With America’s old industries sagging, what kind of jobs will we do?

To tackle that question, Steve Paulson sat down with MIT management professor, Erik Brynjolfsson.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer and journalist Christopher Hitchens tells Steve Paulson that Orwell got it right about imperialism, fascism and communism.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nalini Nadkarni has been called “the queen of canopy research,” in part because of her personal philosophy to bring together two groups - the trees and the general public. She does this by collaborating with dancers, rappers, artists, and prisoners, just to name only a few. She created the Big Canopy Database to help researchers around the world to store the rich trove of data she and others are uncovering.

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David Kalat, author of "J-Horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge and Beyond" tells Steve Paulson what these Japanese gore-fests have in common.

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Dana Lindaman tells Anne Strainchamps that Americans should remember that other countries have different views of America.

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Novelist Colin McAdam conjures a fictional world of a childless couple who adopt a rambunctious chimp.  We hear excerpts of his novel "A Beautiful Truth."

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Charles Matthewes tells Steve Paulson that while some acts deserve to be condemned, we should be careful not to exclude the perpetrators from the human race.

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Dean Ripa owns and operates the Cape Fear Serpentarium. He spent decades trekking the world hunting examples of the most venomous reptiles alive.

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