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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Corby Kummer tells Anne Strainchamps about French fleur de sel and it’s Portugese cousin flor de sal.  They’re exotic and expensive gourmet sea salts that taste fabulous.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin straddles avant-garde and mainstream film, and he’s obsessed with the lost masterpieces from cinema’s history. In this extended interview, Maddin tells Steve Paulson he’s haunted by the ghosts of early cinema.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dean King tells Jim Fleming about the ordeal of Captain James Riley and his crew. They lost their ship and were enslaved by desert nomads for months.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Sam Kriss's Dangerous Idea? The "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" as satire.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Levitin runs McGill University's Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mishy Harman recommends "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amos Oz.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Philosopher David Chalmers is famous for outlining the "hard problem of consciousness."  In this EXTENDED INTERVIEW, he says the materialist framework of science will never be able to explain subjective experience - our thoughts and feelings, the expereince of joy or sorrow, self-awareness. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Legal scholar Cass Sunstein believes humans are innately irrational.

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