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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Whose America is it?   Writer Thomas King has strong feelings about that.  He says Native Americans have been many things to white people.   Slaves, stereotypes, savages.   And always inconvenient.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Before the airplane was invented, ballooning was all the rage, and many people thought this was the future of air travel. Cultural historian Richard Holmes describes the remarkable history of the hot air balloon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rosalind Wiseman and Rachael Simmons say that girls’ popularity with other girls is influenced by the politics of the social pecking order and that the effects of being ostracized can be devastating.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thomas Hine is the author of “I Want THAT: How We All Became Shoppers.” He tells Anne Strainchamps how our culture grooms men and women to behave differently as shoppers and exploits the traits of both sexes. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Paulson produced this essay/report on the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Scott Weidensaul talks with Jim Fleming about several animals that have turned up after their species was thought to be extinct.

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