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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

His job for the New York Times is to troll the internet for new and noteworthy words. What do these words tell us about the times we live in?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"True Detective" creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto recommends "Absalom, Absalom" by William Faulkner.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Blanche Barton is the former High Priestess of the Church of Satan. She tells Steve Paulson that Satanists are outsiders who do not worship Satan.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Cartoonist, author and illustrator Bruce McCall tells Jim Fleming that the same economic pressures attract Canadians and he compares Canadian and American culture.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Elizabeth Royte spent some time on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island, the best-studied rainforest in the world.  She describes some of the naturalists she met and their work in her book “The Tapir’s Morning Bath.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Legal scholar Cass Sunstein believes humans are innately irrational.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Is the experience of wonder always unexpected? Or can we create opportunities for wonder?

Internationally acclaimed sound, video and installation artist Janet Cardiff weighs in.

You can also hear the extended interview with Cardiff here.

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