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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The 100th centennial of Alan Turing’s birth is June 23rd. In this NEW EXTENDED interview, Turing biographer Andrew Hodges tells Jim Fleming about Turing's childhood, innovation, code-cracking and persecution for his homosexuality. Hodge's book is Alan Turing: The Enigma.

 
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Author Harriet Brown has a dangerous idea. What if stopped talking about how we look? Just stopped...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Amy Gorman's book "Aging Artfully" led to a documentary by Greg Norman called "Still Kicking," profiling six artistic women.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Adrian Wooldridge tells Jim Fleming that unexpectedly, religious faith has not only survived into the modern era, it's thriving.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Reporter Ann Hepperman examines the impact Starbucks has had on Flagstaff, Arizona.  It’s the homogenization of American culture vs. reliably good coffee!

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Wine journalist Alice Feiring opposes the dominant, market-driven, one palate fashion of the wine industry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In 2010, explorer Sarah Marquis set out on a solo walk from Siberia to Australia. Over the course of three years and 10,000 miles, she braved subzero temperatures and sandstorms, and was harassed by drunk nomads and drug dealers. She writes about the adventure in a new book called "Wild By Nature."

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Andrea di Robilant is an Italian journalist from an old Venetian family who's made a novel out of the story contained in some letters from his family's attic.

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