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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Alice Dreger tells Jim Fleming that conjoined twins usually see themselves as individuals, but view being joined as a positive thing.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 One fifth of all new relationships today begin online.  That’s a lot of people trusting their hearts to the algorithms of digital matchmakers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What makes a happy workplace? It's pretty clear that most of us want more than just a paycheck. We walso want to do something we care about. The quest to build a corporate culture around meaningful work is what led Chip Conley to the pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow and his "hierarchy of needs."  At the bottom of Maslow's pyramid are baisc survival needs like food and shelter. And at the top is "self-actualization," where people reach their full potential. So what would a self-actualizing company look like?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Andre Brink is a white South African novelist whose anti-apartheid books inspired Nelson Mandela and became a lightning rod for criticism from the ruling regime.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anne DIck, Philip K. Dick's third wife, talks about their relationship.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A. Scott Berg is the author of “Kate Remembered.” The book is a biography of Katherine Hepburn in the form of a memoir of the author’s twenty year friendship with the actress.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Field biologist Alan Rabinowitz has spent decades studying tigers and leopards in Thailand.  His book “Beyond the Last Village,” recounts his time in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma.)

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mary Oliver has said, "The poem is meant to be given away, best of all by the spoken presentation of it; then the work is complete." To complete the second hour of the Death series, here's her reading of "When Death Comes," taken from At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver and used with permission from Beacon Press, 2006.

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