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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Aleph Molinari says approximately 70 percent of the global population does not have access to digital technology. And that digital divide means billions of people are being left out of education, employment, and global dialogues.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 One fifth of all new relationships today begin online.  That’s a lot of people trusting their hearts to the algorithms of digital matchmakers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What makes a happy workplace? It's pretty clear that most of us want more than just a paycheck. We walso want to do something we care about. The quest to build a corporate culture around meaningful work is what led Chip Conley to the pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow and his "hierarchy of needs."  At the bottom of Maslow's pyramid are baisc survival needs like food and shelter. And at the top is "self-actualization," where people reach their full potential. So what would a self-actualizing company look like?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"I’m a different person when I’m in Nepal..." Jeffrey Potter has been documenting life in a village in eastern Nepal for 20 years. During a trip there in 2000, he was present for the death of a young man named Harka. In this story, he talks about how that experience that was both profound and unexplainable.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anne Fadiman talks about the delight she and her brother took as children with collecting (and killing) butterflies.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A. Van Jordan has put together a collection of poems about physics.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Celebrated poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka wrote the foreword to the book, "This Planet Is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra."  He spoke to Steve Paulson about Sun Ra's music and poetry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The 100th centennial of Alan Turing’s birth is June 23rd. In this NEW EXTENDED interview, Turing biographer Andrew Hodges tells Jim Fleming about Turing's childhood, innovation, code-cracking and persecution for his homosexuality. Hodge's book is Alan Turing: The Enigma.

 

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