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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dave Foreman started as a lobbyist for the Wilderness Society in the 1970s.  Then he became a radical and co-founded Earth First! becoming America's most admired and notorious environmentalist.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brian Christian is the author of "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive." He tells Steve Paulson why he decided to compete in the annual Turing competition, not for the most human computer, but for the "most human human."

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

Doug Gordon profiles Cole’s notes, the Canadian inspiration for America’s CliffsNotes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anyone who works in news will tell you that photographs drive attention.  That a great photograph can propel a story or an issue from the sidelines to the center of a public conversation.  Large-scale photographer Edward Burtynsky is making it his life’s work to jump start a global conversation about sustainability – by photographing scarred, damaged industrial landscapes.  He’s a TED prize winner whose work is in more than 50 museum collections.  Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal have worked together on two documentaries.  Steve Paulson talked with her about their first – filmed in China.  It’s called  “Manufactured Landscapes.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Diana Butler Bass says we're now living in a post-religious age.  What's surprising is how many people are abandoning organized religion, but not God.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There are lots of ways we identify ourselves – where we come from, our race, our religion… but perhaps nothing shapes our identity more than whether we’re a man or a woman. But even that can get really complicated.  Independent producer Aubrey Ralph explains.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Gabe Hudson was a Marine Reservist whose unit served in the Gulf War. Hudson himself didn’t see combat, but based on his friends’ war stories, Hudson has written a book of surreal short stories.

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