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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eric Nuzum writes a ghost story in the form of a memoir about growing up in a house he believed to be haunted by the ghost of a little girl in a blue dress.  She stalked him.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is fascinated by the way memory shapes our sense of self.  But he says our memories can be quite different from what we actually experience.

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Stephan Eirik Clark's Dangerous Idea? Subdivide the United States into smaller countries.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Reporter Charles Monroe-Kane visits one of the last surviving grist mills in the US. He learns how water power is used to grind wheat into flour, and learns something about himself as well.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Keli Carender is a Tea Party activist – in fact, she was the very first Tea Party activist. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Bond got scared when he received a letter from the government saying they'd lost his newborn daughter's data. He decided to see if he could disappear himself.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ben Ratliff has been a jazz critic at the NY Times since 1996.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Jill Lepore talks about her restless search for the long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time."  It ran some nine million words and was supposedly the work of a madman named Joe Gould, who believed he was the 20th century's most brilliant historian.

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