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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

California surgeon Leonard Schlain tells Steve Paulson that ancestral women made the connection between sex and birth and the moon and discovered time.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku thinks that nature is God's greatest creation.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Religious historian Karen Armstrong doesn’t like the either/or, good/evil dichotomy. She believes we are hard-wired to be both selfish and kind.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paula Apsell, Senior Executive Producer of the PBS series, Nova, talks with Steve Paulson about story choice and how to interview scientists.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead got the magazine assignment of a lifetime: a week in Vegas, playing in the World Series of Poker.  He tells Doug Gordon about high stakes poker and his own "anhedonia," his difficulty experiencing pleasure.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jonathan Carroll talks about his book “White Apples.” It’s the story of a man who finds out he’s already dead, and the afterlife is right here.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Can you fall in love with anyone?  More than 20 years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron made two strangers fall in love in his laboratory.   How?  He asked them 36 questions.    This year, Mandy Len Catron tried out the 36 questions with a guy she barely knew.  Now they’re in love.  

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Lloyd Young is starring as Frankie Valli of The Four Seasons in "Jersey Boys." He tells Anne Strainchamps why he decided to become an actor.

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