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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian and author Graham Robb tells Steve Paulson that there was a great deal of tolerance for homosexuals in the 19th century, as long as they were discreet.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In the early 20th century, as visual artists started experimenting with abstraction and surrealism, musicians were experimenting too. But why, nearly 100 years later, are the works of Modern visual artists more popular than Avant Garde music? 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Holly Black is a best-selling author of contemporary fantasy novels for teens and children. Her work includes "The Spiderwick Chronicles." Black tells Anne Strainchamps that girl nerds and geeks definitely exist.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Gershom Gorenberg talks with Steve Paulson about the site that the Jews call the Temple Mount which the Muslims revere as Al-Aqsa.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Guy Consolmagno is an American planetary researcher and a Jesuit priest.  He's the curator of one of the world's great collections of meteorites, at the Vatican Observatory.  He gets a lot of questions about how he can be both a priest and a scientist.  Luckily, he has a sense of humor about it -- witness a recent appearance on the Colbert Report -- and believes science and religion can work together.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Geoff Gilpin, author of "The Maharishi Effect," tells Anne Strainchamps how he became interested in the Transcendental Meditation movement.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chinese actress Gong Li takes us for a walk through Beijing.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

To mark the opening of the movie version of “The Sorcerer’s Stone,” an exploration of the phenomenal popularity of the Harry Potter books.

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