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Marian Salzman is director of strategic content for J. Walter Thompson, America's largest advertising firm.  She comments on the rising economic importance of China and India.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jason Goodwin won the Edgar Award for "The Janissary Tree," his first novel featuring Yashim Togalu, a eunuch who lives in 19th century Istanbul. Yashim is back in "The Snake Stone."

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For Women's History Month, we're celebrating one of history's forgotten women, Jane Franklin. Harvard historian Jill Lepore talks about why she chose to write a biography of Ben Franklin's sister.

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Marla Cilley tells Anne Strainchamps that an orderly house begins with a clean, shiny kitchen sink, and that women should wear lace up shoes so that they’re ready for anything.

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Robert and Ellen Kaplan wrote “The Art of the Infinite.”  They talk about it with Jim Fleming.

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Jeremy Campbell tells Steve Paulson about the ways Mother Nature uses deception to fool predators, and talks about Bill Clinton and the balance of the public good and personal morality.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Most of us think we have a right to a certain amount of privacy in our lives, but what do we actually mean by it? Writer Garret Keizer tells Steve Paulson how he'd define it. 

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Your name is a set of sounds used to set you apart.  But what if your sounds are too hard for some people to say?   Parth Shah shares the first episode of "Hyphen," a podcast about people who live in two different worlds simultaneously.  In this episode, Parth explores what it's like to grow up in America with a name that some people think doesn't "sound American".

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