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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Poet Edward Hirsch bookmarks Alice Oswald's "Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What he learned from Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Artist Neil Harbisson was born greyscale colorblind. He says he liked seeing only in shades of black and white, but he still wanted to experience color. So he developed an implant that would help him hear colors well beyond the normal human spectrum, from ultraviolet to infrareds. 

In this extended conversation, Neil talks about the art he makes with his new sense, and about the challenges of living cyborg.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What role does sound play in Franz Kafka's fiction?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What’s it like to grow up with a great naturalist?  Well, it made quite an impression on the children of famed conservationist Aldo Leopold.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Graphic novelist Chris Ware talks with Anne Strainchamps about the hard work of making comic books. Ware is the author of "Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If the mall-as-temple turns you off, you may be ready for Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

TTBOOK producer Charles Monroe-Kane reports on what he thought was a piece of youth media - MTV's hit comedy "The Andy Milonakis Show."

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