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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Erik Trinkaus tells Steve Paulson that many of our assumptions about them, and our other "cave man" ancestors are just plain wrong.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We've turned our hearts over to software; 30 million Americans have online dating profiles. About one-fifth of all new relationships in North America start with people meeting online. 

So far, the algorithms don't seem to know much more than we do, about what we're looking for.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Filmmaker Albert Nerenberg's Dangerous Idea? Laugh more. 

You can also watch his laughter hack video.

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

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For eight years Anu Garg has been sending e-mail to a half million people in two hundred countries around the world, but it's not spam. It's "A Word a Day," a message with a definition, the word's etymology and an example of how to use it.

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Dr. Ted Kaptchuk tells Steve Paulson about the work of some Danish researchers who have concluded that “the Placebo effect” is a myth.

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

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

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