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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Many things can evoke a memory. Like a smell. Or a touch. When Mamek Khadem wanted to evoke the memory of her native Iran during the Islamic revolution in 1979, she did it with music. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

MP3 formatting compresses audio so that the file becomes 75 to 95 percent smaller. But what are we missing?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex. Sometimes, it's also about love. And love is all around.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jason Zinoman talks to Jim Fleming about his book, "Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Anthony Neal considers himself a feminist and thinks that the traditional stereotypes of the Strong Black Man have contributed to the problems that Black men face today.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Nelson hikes through the Alaskan wilderness recording sounds you can't hear anywhere else, and he plays excerpts during this conversation with Anne Strainchamps.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Karen Levine talks with Anne Strainchamps about “Hana’s Suitcase.” Hana Brady perished as a child in a Nazi death camp.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Ondaatje's new novel tells the tale of an eleven year old boy who traveled on board The Oronsay from Ceylon to England in 1952.  Michael Ondaatje traveled on board The Oronsay from Ceylong to England in 1952, when he was eleven years old.  In this uncut interview he tells Jim Fleming that while one story informs the other, they are not the same.

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