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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Perhaps one of the most obvious and important cultural divides in the United States is between the political right and left.

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Steve Paulson about his research into the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republican, and how we might begin to speak across the gap.
 
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The sonic sepia of a rare 78RPM lets us eavesdrop on Cantor Isaiah Meisels, singing prayers for theJewish High Holy Days in 1907.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What’s happening in our brains when we talk or sing or play music? Are language and music different neural processes? Neuroscientist Charles Limb peaks into the mind of a particular kind of musician... rappers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There’s one devil we NEVER sympathize with: the terrorist.  But... Hold on.  Not so fast, says filmmaker Marshall Curry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jane Hamilton and her husband grow and sell apples on their farm in Wisconsin...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John McNally is the author of “The Book of Ralph: A Fiction.” McNally tells Steve Paulson about the real life kids who served as the models for his character Ralph, a trouble-maker.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this extended interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin discusses "Toms River" — his remarkable investigative story of industrial pollution in a New Jersey town — and why it's so difficult to prove the link between environmental toxins and cancer clusters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rivka Galchen finished her MD and MFA degrees. Now she's published her first novel, "Atmospheric Disturbances."

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