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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rupert Isaacson made a journey with his family to seek out shamans in horse-centered cultures to treat his autistic son.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Biologist Steven Austad is so confident human beings will soon live to be 150 years old that he’s bet on it with a colleague: Jay Olshansky, who says we’re already living way past our expiration date!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We're celebrating National Poetry Month this year by reading some of our favorite poems. Here's Sara with Allen Ginsberg's "Sunflower Sutra."

A small warning, there are some explicit words in the poem.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Susan Friedman tells Anne Strainchamps about her friendship, initiated and maintained via e-mail over the internet, with a young woman scholar in Iraq.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

William La Fleur is the author of “Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan.”  He tells Anne Strainchamps about the Japanese mizuko rituals which are a form of public apology addressed to aborted fetuses.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Seymour Hersh broke the My Lai massacre story during the Vietnam War and he was among the first to document the extent of the abuses and the cover-up at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Siberia is vast... and writer Ian Frazier has crossed it all. He fell in love with the place he calls, “greatest horrible country.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What do the NSA disclosures really tell us? Ben Wizner should know. When he's not directing the ACLU's Speech Privacy and Technology Project, he doubles as Edward Snowden's legal adviser. He explains why we should be worried about the agency's push to expand its surveillance programs.

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