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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Celebrated writer, director and actor Simon Pegg talks to Steve Paulson about his love of "Star Wars" and how it fired up his imagination and his career. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The demographics of the United States are changing: how does the latest wave of immigration fit into the historical pattern?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Psychologist and philosopher Thomas Moore talks with Anne Strainchamps about the connections between springtime and death, and how flowers reflect this.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison remembers her childhood in Ohio.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Russell Foster tells Jim Fleming how the body uses light to tell time; why night shift workers have more accidents; and why it can matter when you take your medicine.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steven Kotler spurned religion until he came down with Lyme Disease and spent three years on the couch. Then a friend took him surfing and he began to get better. Surfing became his religion.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Benjamin Percy's new novel"The Dead Lands" is a wilderness thriller set in a post-apocalyptic landscape.  The descendants of Lewis and Clark reprise their ancestors' epic cross-country journey in search of a new beginning.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Walter’s shop was a hot spot for military men going off to fight in the second world war. Their pin-up girl tattoos are legend. But popular designs change and change. And change again.

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