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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Craig Harline tells Anne Strainchamps how Sunday has evolved over the past several centuries.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bennett Alan Weinberg talks with Anne Strainchamps about how little we actually know about the vegetable alkaloid we know as caffeine.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Elizabeth Lunbeck’s Dangerous Idea is narcissism is good.

 

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Could the Internet feel happy or depressed? That's a distinct possibility, according to Christof Koch. In this EXTENDED interview, he talks about computer consciousness, God, and just what it means that our brains have a hundred billion neurons and trillions of synapses. Koch wonders whether all matter might have consciousness. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Why do we sleep? No-one really knows, but neuro-scientist Bob Stickgold tells Jim Fleming about his ideas concerning sleep and why it’s important.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eula Biss recommends "The Argonauts" by Maggie Nelson.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Michaelis tells Steve Paulson that Charles Schultz put a lot of himself into the Charlie Brown character, was greatly influenced by his mid-Western upbringing.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bill Streever is an Alaskan biologist and a "cryophile" - someone who loves the cold.  He describes what it's like to jump into freezing water as hypothermia starts to set in.

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