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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thomas Hardy's biographer tells Steve Paulson how his wife's death transformed the rest of Hardy's life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

DBC Pierre won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel, “Vernon God Little.” Pierre reads from the book and talks about it and about his own tangled past.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leslie Jamison bookmarks "Orphans" by Charles D'Ambrosio.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carole Angier is the author of “”The Double Bond: Primo Levi, A Biography.”  Levi was a brilliant chemist who mined the world of chemistry for metaphors to help him process his experiences as a Holocaust survivor

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brother Guy Consolmagno, author of “Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist,” talks wit Jim Fleming about the historic rift between science and religion.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charlotte Hays is co-author of "Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Matt tells Steve Paulson that the Big Bang Theory is science's creation myth...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We've turned our hearts over to software; 30 million Americans have online dating profiles. About one-fifth of all new relationships in North America start with people meeting online. 

So far, the algorithms don't seem to know much more than we do, about what we're looking for.

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