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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There's money in the future. It's Liz Crawford's job to help big corporations figure out how to make it.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stacy Schiff's new book "Cleopatra: a life" describes the Egyptian queen as a shrewd political strategist and a brilliant leader.

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Anousheh Ansari became the first Muslim woman to venture into space when she traveled aboard the International Space Station.

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So your future self’s woken up at home on this weekday in 2055. Time for work, right? But what kind of work? With America’s old industries sagging, what kind of jobs will we do? Here's MIT management professor, Erik Brynjolfsson.

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Self-described former jihadist Mubin Shaikh recounts his journey into, and out of, extremism.

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If there is one song more than any other that shimmers with political and emotional resonance, it’s “We Shall Overcome.”

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By now, it's almost commonplace to worry that the amount of time you spend on the Internet is actually rewiring your brain. But the first person to really put the issue on the cultural map was the writer Nicholas Carr -- in a book that's become a contemporary classic: "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains."

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Shelley Mitchell has created a one-woman play called "Talking with Angels."  She talks with Anne Strainchamps about the play and the historical incident and book on which it's based.

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