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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

It’s hard to wrap your head around climate change. How do you really take in the concept of planetary change over decades or even centuries? Visual artist Kambui Olujimi explores different ideas about time in his one-man show “Zulu Time.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Elizabeth Lunbeck talks about her book, "The Americanization of Narcissism."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stephen Bloom tells Jim Fleming about a group of Orthodox Jews who moved from Brooklyn to Postville to run a kosher slaughterhouse.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Timothy Ferris is the author of nearly a dozen books of popular science, including “Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We all love the feeling of getting lost in a good story and seeing the world through a character’s eyes.  Recently, psychologists have been studying whether that experience actually changes readers. Novelist and cognitive psychologist Keith Oatley tells us about the latest research connecting fiction with empathy.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When Asra Normani got an assignment to research Tantra - an ancient form of yoga - she thought she'd have an adventure. She ended up on a journey of the spirit and the heart.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thebe Medupe is an astrophysicist who grew up under apartheid. He talks about the stories he grew up hearing from his village elders and the astronomical legends of the Dogun people in Mali.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neuroscientist Sebastian Seung takes us inside the "connectome":  the audacious project to create a detailed map of the human brain. 

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