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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lawrence Krauss's Dangerous Idea is NOT believing in god.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Are you feeling a little cynical? Maybe a little down? Have no fear, we have a documentary to cure what ails you. It’s called “The Gnomist.” As in garden gnomes. And if you think this is some sort of post modern ironic bait and switch you could be no further from the truth. Our producer Charles Monroe-Kane caught up with the film’s director, Sharon Liese, to find out what happened with garden gnomes along the Tomahawk Creek Trail in Overland Park, Kansas.  A place now dubbed The Firefly Forest.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rabbi Arik Ascherman, executive director of Israel’s Rabbis for Human Rights, tells Jim Fleming his organization hopes to protect the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A dinner party takes a turn for the worse in this story by Andrew Graff.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie splits her time between the U.S. and her native Nigeria...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Coral reefs and many of the oceans' marvels may disappear before this century ends, according to a new scientific study. Science writer Elizabeth Kolbert says we're facing the sixth great extinction. In this extended interview, she tells Steve Paulson stories from the front lines of the fight against extinction, from Panama to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

E.L. Doctorow's latest novel is called "The March" and is about the devastating effect on the South during the Civil War of General William Tecumseh Sherman.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Primatologist Barbara J. King tells Steve Paulson about her belief that the rudimentary qualities of religion can be seen in the behavior of the great apes.

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