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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Composer Philip Glass says he was transported by "The Wayfinders" - Wade Davis' celebration of indigenous cultures.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Matt tells Steve Paulson that the Big Bang Theory is science's creation myth...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Comic novelist David Lodge takes on the old battle between science and the humanities in his latest book, “Thinks.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bennett Alan Weinberg talks with Anne Strainchamps about how little we actually know about the vegetable alkaloid we know as caffeine.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bruce Watson tells Steve Paulson why Erector Sets were so huge. They reflected the spirit of America’s Industrial Age, and A.C. Gilbert marketed them directly to boys.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Dalton and his sister were assistants on Warhol's early Pop Art paintings when they were in their teens...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Entomologist Deborah Gordon tells Steve Paulson that ant colonies run with no one in charge.  She’s spent years figuring out how they do it.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Why do we sleep? No-one really knows, but neuro-scientist Bob Stickgold tells Jim Fleming about his ideas concerning sleep and why it’s important.

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