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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If we think of cities as organisms, their DNA is the hodgepodge of rules that shape development. Urban planner Emily Talen talks about how city zoning, coding and laws got started, and how they need to be changed to help us build more livable cities.

Take a look at a visual archive of city plans.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Palmer's music writing has great influence on John Lennon. Find out why.

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Brian Price tells Anne Strainchamps how he came to prepare the last meals for some 200 inmates on Death Row in Texas prisons.

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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.

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Jungian analyst David Lindorff is the author of "Pauli and Jung: The Meeting of Two Great Minds."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

So your future self’s woken up at home on this weekday in 2055. Time for work, right?

But what kind of work? With America’s old industries sagging, what kind of jobs will we do?

To tackle that question, Steve Paulson sat down with MIT management professor, Erik Brynjolfsson.

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Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University.  She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.

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Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.

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