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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What's it like to be part human and part machine?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dan Price, author of "Radical Simplicity: Creating an Authentic Life," tells Jim Fleming how his efforts to keep down-sizing his life led him to live and work in a hole in the ground.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Great Britain is one of the first countries to create "a gross national happiness index" - thanks largely to Lord Richard Layard.  He says economics should focus on what makes people happy.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Elizabeth Von Muggenthaler is president of the Fauna Communications Research Institute.  She shares samples with Jim Fleming of some of the amazing animal sounds her group has recorded.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What happens in your brain when you dance?  Frank Browning talks with scientists and choreographers in France and the U.S. about the "dancing brain."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Fashion designer Suzanne Lee makes jackets and skirts out of cloth she grows by fermenting liquid in a big vat. In the future, she believes we'll harness nature to grow all sorts of clothing and other products.

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Daniel Handler wrote "A Series of Unfortunate Events" under the pen name of Lemony Snicket.

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Megabyte, terabyte, gigabyte... web-watcher David Siegel says the web's just too data heavy. The answer is to stop duplicating and make all that data - particularly our personal data - more meaningful. 

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