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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Clare Crespo thinks you should play with your food, and she tells Anne Strainchamps about her banana hot dog and the family portrait she created from mashed potatoes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Alain de Botton's latest project Is art as therapy. Feeling lonely? Stand in front of the Mona Lisa. Anxious about work? Caspar David Friedrich’s “Rocky Reef on the Seashore” will put everything in perspective. Anne talks with de Botton about his new book, free app, and… upcoming museum shows.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eric Toso was walking home from a swimming pool when he was bitten on the foot by a rattlesnake. It nearly killed him, but he had a spiritual awakening and found a new appreciation for living in the moment and respecting the Wild.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Artist Natasha Nicholson makes contemporary cabinets of curiosity, but not simply to gaze at – they are her world. Nicholson lives inside her own art, highly curated rooms in an old storefront in Madison, Wisconsin.

Her solo show that reproduces her ENTIRE studio space is at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Pauly tells Steve Paulson that technological changes in the modern fishery are wiping out vast populations of fish.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bart Kosko is a professor of electrical engineering at USC and the author of "Noise." He explains the science of noise. And we hear lots of examples.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In 2003, Craig Mullaney led an infantry rifle platoon along the hostile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brian Christian is the author of "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive."  In 2009, he won the annual Loebner Prize -- awarded to the computer program that comes closest to passing the Turing Test for artificial intelligence.  Christian won for being the "most human human."

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