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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Happy Valentine's Day! Looking for a new take on love? Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson has been studying the emotion and has a new definition. In this EXTENDED interview, she also talks about how to build more of it into our days.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Don't ask Anna Dietrich if she invented a car that can fly. No one can do that she says. She did, however, invent a plane that can drive. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Aimee McCormick and Andra Mitrovich spent years touring in a two-woman play called, “Love, Janis.”  They talk about how much of herself Janis Joplin poured into her performances.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Alison Hawthorne Deming reads "Chauvet" - her poem about the French cave with ancient art painted on its walls.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Much of what we think about Karl Marx is wrong, according to cultural critic Terry Eagleton.  And he says Marx admired capitalism, though he was also its most trenchant critic.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Allen Snyder tells Steve Paulson that he uses a device called the Medtronic Mag Pro to stimulate autistic-savant-like abilities in normal people.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Andrew Hurley’s book is “Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture.”  Hurley talks about the history of the diner.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Aaron was born female and lived the first 29 years of his life as a girl named Sarah. He then went through the hormone and surgical therapies to become male and lives now as a gay man.

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