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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

No one doubts memory is one of the things that shapes our sense of self, but is there a science of self?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Clyde Prestowitz tells Jim Fleming that India has an educated, skilled work force and can do business in English, so it's cashing in thanks to an internet-based economy.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Food critic Carolyn Wyman talks with Steve Paulson about the history of Wonder Bread. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Liss talks about how different trials were in the 18th century, and explains that modern patterns of thinking were only beginning to take hold.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 

David Couper was Chief of the Madison, Wisconsin Police Department for more than 20 years. In his new book "Arrested Development" he talks about his years of service. He says that less than one percent of police departments require college degrees from their officers.  If he could change only one thing, that would be it. In this uncut interview with Jim Fleming, he relates his argument.
 
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

You wouldn’t think the novel “Lolita” would go over big in an underground women’s book club in Tehran. But literature, like the people who read it, has a way of surprising you.  Azar Nafizi is the author of the celebrated memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Almond recommends "Stoner" by John Williams.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Cheri Register is the author of “Packinghouse Daughter:  A Memoir.”  She talks about her visit with her sixth grade class to the meat-packing plant where her father worked.

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