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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

David Hajdu is the author of “Positively Fourth Street,” a book about Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and the folk/protest music scene of the 1960s.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bill McKibben tells Anne Strainchamps that his new Honda Civic electric hybrid car gets over fifty miles to the gallon and is just as comfortable and convenient as his old Civic.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chuck Taggart is the producer and compiler of a CD box set called “Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol’ Box of New Orleans.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What if you could take a pill or download netware to supercharge your brain? Physicist Michio Kaku says augmented intelligence and memory playback systems are the future of brain science.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ralph Nader's Dangerous Idea? Drafting the children and grandchildren of elected representatives.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Erik Trinkaus tells Steve Paulson that many of our assumptions about them, and our other "cave man" ancestors are just plain wrong.

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.

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