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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Austin Grossman is the author of a novel called "Soon I Will Be Invincible" and tells Jim Fleming that he tried to respect the comics conventions in his prose.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Ben Cheever, son of John Cheever, talks with Jim Fleming about the price of fame and remembers the way people treated him because of his famous father.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We've turned our hearts over to software; 30 million Americans have online dating profiles. About one-fifth of all new relationships in North America start with people meeting online. 

So far, the algorithms don't seem to know much more than we do, about what we're looking for.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leslie Jamison bookmarks "Orphans" by Charles D'Ambrosio.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bjorn Turmann was born and raised in Vancouver, but has lived in Asia since 1993 ...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dr. Ted Kaptchuk tells Steve Paulson about the work of some Danish researchers who have concluded that “the Placebo effect” is a myth.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Comic novelist David Lodge takes on the old battle between science and the humanities in his latest book, “Thinks.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brother Guy Consolmagno, author of “Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist,” talks wit Jim Fleming about the historic rift between science and religion.

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