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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thug Kitchen is a wildly popular, foul-mouthed vegan food blog.  The formerly anonymous writers have just come out with a cookbook and revealed their identities.  Michelle Davis and Matt Holloway are a white couple from L.A.   Now they're fielding questions about the racial politics of the way they write about food.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Walter Isaacson tells Steve Paulson that Einstein had a rebellious nature and that he didn't impress his teachers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Brodner talks about what makes a good political cartoon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Why does dancing - or just watching other people dance - feel so good? Correspondent Frank Browning checks in with dancers and neuroscientists.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tony Rothman talks with Jim Fleming about Sangaku - the ancient tradition of Japanese temple geometry, which flourished during Japan’s period of isolation from the West.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Acclaimed fiction writer - and guest producer of this hour - Nathan Englander talks about creative problem solving. He invited musicologist and composer Freddy Knop to create a soundscape of how it feels when the muse descends.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sean Pica is the executive director of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, a degree granting program out of Sing-Sing Prison in New York State.  It's full-circle for Pica who was convicted and served time for a crime he committed as a teenager. 

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