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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

DEVO co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh recommends "Editions of You" from Roxy Music’s 1973 album, "For Your Pleasure."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Colin Meloy likes to lose himself in music. He’s the songwriter and lead singer of a band called The Decemberists.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Engineer Bill Gurstelle loves things that go BOOM! Gurstelle tells Jim Fleming how to build and operate the Potato Cannon and a Roman catapult.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Dan Chaon talks about his new book of non-supernatural ghost stories, "Stay Awake."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tufts Medical School psychiatrist Daniel Carlat believes psychiatry is in crisis.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charles Hartman collaborated with his computer to write poetry. He describes his experience in the book “Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In 1969, Frederic Whitehurst was in Viet Nam, burning captured enemy documents.  He saved the diary of a young woman, and many years later returned it to her mother.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Aubrey de Grey has identified seven categories of molecular and cellular damage. He says if we can prevent or repair that damage, there's no reason why people can't go on living indefinitely.

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