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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio tracked down seven former dictators living in exile around the world.  He talks about what it was like to meet and talk with them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jason Pfaff wants to eat in every single Denny’s.  He’s made it to a few hundred so far.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jon Scieskza tells Anne Strainchamps that boys like to read funny stuff, not the books their female teachers loved as girls.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 Reverend Jamie Coots was a snake handler and Pentecostal preacher in Middlesboro, Kentucky.   He died this past Saturday, when the rattlesnake he was handling during a church service bit him.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Margaret D. Jacobs studies early 20th century policies in both the U.S. and Australia, that removed indigenous children from their homes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A recent study of DNA from Neanderthal bones changed everything we thought we knew.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anthropologist Jeremy Narby went to the Peruvian Amazon to study the Ashaninca Indians.  The experience transformed his outlook on life, especially once he tried their powerful hallucinogen ayahuasca. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joshua Shenk tells Jim Fleming that Abraham Lincoln never attempted suicide, that we know of, but referred to it in a poem he wrote, and Shenk recites the poem.

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