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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Frances Moore Lappé has working toward sustainability and biodiversity for more than 40 years. But one day, in the middle of a conference about climate change, she started to wonder if people were telling the story all wrong.

You can also listen to our interview with Wangari Maathai about reforesting Africa.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ali Allawi was Minister of Trade and Minister of Defense in the Interim Iraqi Governing Council in 2003 and 2004. He resigned his position as Minister of Finance in the Iraqi Transitional Government because he was frustrated by the political infighting.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Amir Aczel tells Jim Fleming that your odds on a coin toss are always 50/50, no matter how many times you do it.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are The Yes Men. They pose as the World Trade Organization or major corporate entities to pull off pranks as political action.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Girl loses self, solo hikes 1,000 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, and finds herself.  Cheryl Strayed's best-selling memoir "Wild" is now a movie, starring Reese Witherspoon.  Cheryl makes the case for walking as a life-saving act.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A. J. Jacobs decided to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. He tells Steve Paulson why and some of the peculiar facts he picked up along the way.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Los Angeles comic and humor columnist Alan Olifson reads an essay on the dangers of enjoying irony.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Andre Agassi tells Steve Paulson about his father who was driven to make him a champion, but whom he does not consider to have been abusive.

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