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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Have you been to the High Line yet? It’s a new park in Manhattan, full of sunbathers, lush plantings and strolling locals. It’s also about 30 feet above the ground, built on the bed of an old elevated train line. Writer Annik La Farge talks about the park, five years into its reinvention.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Economist E. Glen Weyl has invented a market-driven voting system that he believes is much fairer and more democratic than one-vote-per-person majority rule.  It's called Quadratic Voting and it starts with giving everyone a bunch of tokens, or chips, along with a simple mathematical formula for voting.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis talks about the possibility of upgrading our brains with computer chips.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charles Bukowski reads his poem, "The Poetry Reading." Then, Kristen Asbjornsen speaks with Jim Fleming from her home in Norway and explains how she set Bukowski's poems to music. And we hear the results.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lincoln Hall is an Australian mountain climber. He tells Jim Fleming about his fatal adventure on Mt. Everest, the subject of his book "Dead Lucky: Life after Death on Mount Everest."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lee Smolin tells Steve Paulson about the debate in the blogosphere about string theory's failure to advance the field of physics beyond the accepted model.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Here's our final poem to share for this National Poetry Month, Jim reading Max Garland's "A Lesson in Love."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Louis Colaianni thinks anyone can be taught to speak Shakespeare.  He gives Anne Strainchamps a lesson using the introduction to “Romeo and Juliet.”

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