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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Donovan Campbell was a Marine lieutenant who served three combat deployments as a company commander – two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor for his time in Iraq.

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

A loaf of fluffy white store-bought bread may look innocent -- but conceals a rich political and economic history.  Aaron Bobrow-Strain charts the rise and fall of white bread and reveals what's really at stake when we argue about food.    

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

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

Albert Nerenberg tells Steve Paulson he was watching a documentary about intelligence when it occurred to him that stupidity would make a much more interesting film.

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… 

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