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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eoin Colfer is the author of the Artemis Fowl books.  There are five of them now. The latest on is called "The Lost Colony."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Hajdu is the author of “Positively Fourth Street,” a book about Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and the folk/protest music scene of the 1960s.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Sterritt tells Steve Paulson about beatnik filmmaker Bruce Conner, the father of the music video and creator of a style of video montage that prefigures today's upcycling movement.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Father Thomas Keating is considered by some people one of the world's greatest living mystics.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chuck Taggart is the producer and compiler of a CD box set called “Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol’ Box of New Orleans.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A final reflection on time from 92 year old writer and former book editor Diana Athill.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anyone who works in news will tell you that photographs drive attention.  That a great photograph can propel a story or an issue from the sidelines to the center of a public conversation.  Large-scale photographer Edward Burtynsky is making it his life’s work to jump start a global conversation about sustainability – by photographing scarred, damaged industrial landscapes.  He’s a TED prize winner whose work is in more than 50 museum collections.  Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal have worked together on two documentaries.  Steve Paulson talked with her about their first – filmed in China.  It’s called  “Manufactured Landscapes.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ralph Nader's Dangerous Idea? Drafting the children and grandchildren of elected representatives.

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