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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Annalee Newitz is optimistic that humans are not necessarily an endangered species. In this EXTENDED interview, she talks with Anne about "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Alan Berliner is a chronic insomniac who goes for days without sleeping.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For 26 years, Dan Pierotti knew — really knew — that his days were numbered. In 1988 he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. In this first installment of his story, the former Lutheran minister talks about his feelings on death and the afterlife.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If gender’s a role we’re all playing, and new roles are emerging, maybe it's time for new costumes. 

A new company in San Francisco is making clothes specifically for butch women and transmen. Saint Harridan’s first order just arrived, and we were there as customers suited up… 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Psychiatrist Allen Peterkin tells Steve Paulson that beards make people think of either Santa Claus or Satan, and that facial hair is making a comeback.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In the mid-1930's, Alan Turing made the revolutionary discovery that launched the digital age. He proved that information can be translated and communicated using nothing but a series of ones and zeroes. And that was just the first of Turing's intellectual achievements. Biographer Andrew Hodges explained Turing's genius to Jim Flemming in 2012.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anne Matthews tells Anne Strainchamps that there’s been an explosion of wildlife in America’s towns and cities.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist Adam Hochschild says the anti-slavery movement in Britain 200 years ago invented many of the political tools and tactics today's protesters still use.

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