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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Morgan Spurlock is the director of the documentary film “Super Size Me.”  He tells Jim Fleming about his experience of eating only at McDonald’s for a month.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mucha Lucha is a Warner Brothers cartoon based on the Mexican tradition of masked wrestlers. The cartoon is the brainchild of an Australian and a Chinese.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Julia Alvarez tells Anne Strainchamps that she raises coffee on a small farm in the Dominican Republic and explains how it influences her writing.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kamran Nazeer tells Anne Strainchamps about his own autism and about some of the other autistic children he went to school with and what happened to them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The sonic sepia of a rare 78RPM lets us eavesdrop on Cantor Isaiah Meisels, singing prayers for theJewish High Holy Days in 1907.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Paulson spoke with Kurt Vonnegut just after his 83rd birthday, and Vonnegut recalled his experiences during the fire-bombing of Dresden.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For Jeannette Walls, one of the things she struggled with most was keeping her past a secret from just about everyone.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What’s happening in our brains when we talk or sing or play music? Are language and music different neural processes? Neuroscientist Charles Limb peaks into the mind of a particular kind of musician... rappers.

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