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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Hawken is the author of "Blessed Unrest." He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the quantity and variety of people and organizations involved in the global activism movement.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lynne Truss is the author of a very popular punctuation guide.  She explains her book’s title to Steve Paulson and gives several funny examples of punctuation mistakes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The clay tablets found at the Greek palace of Knossos had one of the strangest languages ever discovered.  Margalit Fox tells the story of Linear B - and the obsessed, tragic lives of the two people who devoted their lives to cracking the code.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently “The Pig Who Sang to the Moon.”  He says that farm animals have rich, complex emotional lives.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy has written another incendiary book: "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jonathan Lethem talks about the work of Philip K. Dick.  Dick is one of Lethem's literary heroes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Moskowitz makes political ads. Moskowitz tells Steve Paulson about how political ads are made and about the art of the attack ad.

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