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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Scott Gelfand tells Jim Fleming about the latest in reproductive technology: the artificial womb.  He worries that the device will be upon us before we’ve settled all the social and ethical issues it raises.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Terry Tempest Williams adores Thoreau.  She says his passion for social justice and his love of nature are intimately connected.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Woody Tasch is the author of "Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jessica Hopper is a rock critic with a secret.  She hates music festivals.  After more than a decade covering Lollapalooza, Bonaroo and all the rest, she finally called it quits.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Author Sam Harris's Dangerous Idea? Free will may be an illusion.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

First it was the Islamic State of Iraq, ISIS. Then the Levant Islamic State of Iraq, ISIL. And now IS – a self-described Islamic State. But what about the youth of the Arab World? What do they want?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What's the best way to fight the homogenization of America?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stephen Asma teaches philosophy at Columbia College in Chicago. He talks to Anne Strainchamps about his book "On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears."

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