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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Fernanda Eberstadt talks with Steve Paulson about the gypsy community of Perpignan. They’ve lived in this southern French city for some 500 years but don’t consider themselves French.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If we think of cities as organisms, their DNA is the hodgepodge of rules that shape development. Urban planner Emily Talen talks about how city zoning, coding and laws got started, and how they need to be changed to help us build more livable cities.

Take a look at a visual archive of city plans.

 

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It’s 2055, a regular weekday morning… Where do you wake up? With a booming population and more people moving into urban areas, chances are you’d be living in a city. But what might that city look like?
Mitchell Joaquim is an architect, and one of the founders of the innovative design group, TerreForm1.

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A few maverick physicists in the 1970s revived interest in quantum physics by exploring some of the deepest philosophical questions about reality.

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Ben Ratliff has been a jazz critic at the NY Times since 1996.

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Historian Jill Lepore talks about her restless search for the long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time."  It ran some nine million words and was supposedly the work of a madman named Joe Gould, who believed he was the 20th century's most brilliant historian.

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Dean King tells Jim Fleming about the ordeal of Captain James Riley and his crew. They lost their ship and were enslaved by desert nomads for months.

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Maybe the silver lining to any break-up is the soundtrack. You get the sad songs and the sorry songs. When you're tired of tears on your pillow and ready to revive, there are the angry break-up songs.

In this EXTENDED interview with producer Sara Nics, Jason Saldanha and Robin Linn of WBEZ's Sound Opinions talk blame, revenge and moving on.

WARNING: In this extended version, there is profanity in some of the lyrics.

Want to see the full list of suggested break-up song? Here it is.

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