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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Maryam Eskandari is a mosque architect and founder of MIIM Designs.  She say most non-Muslims think designing a mosque is full of rules. But it’s not. She told Charles Monroe-Kane that the only rule is you have to point out the direction to Mecca. This is called the marabji.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

You know poems can be different things to different people: solace, a call to action, beauty. A reflection on war. But to Rae Armantrout there’s one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

physicist Robert Park says we’re inundated with pseudo-science and gives some examples of famous “scientific” scams and failures.  Park’s book is “Voodoo Science.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Paulson introduces us to Mark Oliver Everett, better known as "E" - lead singer of the Eels, and son of Hugh Everett, the man who came up with the theory of parallel worlds.

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Many of the biggest ideas in science today were dreamed up in the studios of NY's avant garde artists.  So says John Brockman.  He was there.  Today, he brings the same  wide-ranging intellectual spirit to his online science salon, Edge.org.

 

Want to hear more of Domenico Vicinanza's music from Voyager 1 and 2?  Here it is.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Is your marriage passionate? Can we feel thrilled by the same person we look to for intimacy and security?

Esther Perel says, "Yes." She's the author of Mating in Captivity.

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When we think of slavery, many of us think of it as an historic trauma—something in the past that the nation"overcame" to become what it is today. But according to Edward Baptist, the instution of slavery drove the economic development and modernization of the United States, and laid the groundwork for American capitalism as we know it today.

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Jared Diamond has written “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.”  He discusses a few case histories - like Easter Island - with Steve Paulson.

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