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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Commentator Anne Schaffer remembers making Divinity - a puffy, gooey confection that was her mother’s Christmas speciality.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A ghost story from listener Eric Van Vleet.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Amitav Ghosh tells Jim Fleming that English has been a global language for 200 years and cites some of the many Asian words that have long been in the Oxford English Dictionary.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Angelique Kidjo is "Africa's Diva" and its most celebrated female musician.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neurologist Alice Flaherty talks about the science behind writer’s block, and recounts her own experiences with hypergraphia.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Gurian says the second half of our lives has three distinct stages that shape our physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What would it be like to spend two days a month in complete silence?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For nearly a decade, political scientist Kathy Cramer has been travelling throughout rural Wisconsin, talking with groups of people at small cafes, gas stations, and other popular local gathering spots. Through her conversations with ordinary Wisconsinites, she's discovered a growing resentment between the state's rural and academic communities. She tells Steve Paulson that the dream of the Wisconsin Idea isn't connecting with many of the state's rural residents.

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