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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Barbara Fischer tells us the story of how starting a garden saved her life.

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Ellen Handler-Spitz talks with Jim Fleming about the how imagination develops in childhood.

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Philosopher David Chalmers is famous for outlining the "hard problem of consciousness."  He says the materialist framework of science will never be able to explain subjective experience. 

You can listen to the EXTENDED interview - and find the transcript - here.

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 Samuel Delany’s review of “Call me Ishmael” by Charles Olson.

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Sound engineer Ryan Schimmenti put it best, "every space has a sound, every sound tells a story." Using high-end equipment he documents and records the "voices" of buildings.

There are a lot of those sounds in this piece. But if you want more . . .

 

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What if Crack Babies were a myth?

To see the NYTimes video on Crack Babies click here.

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Do physicists think about End Times? Noted string theorist Brian Greene does. He looks into the far future - billions of years from now - and sees a very dark universe.

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Donald Kraybill tells Steve Paulson that Amish attitudes towards technology are nuanced and complex.  He says they prefer to think through the implications of new technology before they adopt it.

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