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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robin Hemley talks with Steve Paulson about the Tasaday, the alleged Stone Age tribe discovered in the 1970s in the Philippines, and later denounced as a hoax.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In a small studio in Brooklyn, one artist is reimagining selfies. Erin Riley finds online self-portraits and transforms them into larger-than-life tapestries. The woven women don’t have faces… but they do have stories.

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

Steve Brodner talks about what makes a good political cartoon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ruth Gendler re-tells the story of "The Mountain That Loved A Bird" by Alice McLerran and Eric Carle. Gendler is an artist and the author of "Notes on the Need for Beauty."  She tells Anne Strainchamps that we need to learn to see the beauty in the world all around us.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wangari Maathai triumphed over discrimination and tribalism in her native land and became an environmental activist, planting trees all over her country.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jesse Ball's new novel is called "How to Set a Fire and Why." The protagonist is a teenage girl who joins a secret Arson Club at her new school.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A former Jain monk, Satish Kumar still follows Gandhi's principles of non-violence. He tells Jim Fleming why he thinks violence is an obsolete weapon.

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