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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Can you know a culture if you don’t speak the language? 

In this cross- inter- multi- cultural age, we’re surveying the map of global culture, attempting to see what’s lost – or made new – in translation.
 
Our friends at The State We're In from Radio Netherlands kick us off with an attempted translation of "gezellig!"
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Hal Taussig thought it was time to discuss what books should be in the New Testament, so he organized discussions with a council of advisors.  They've come up with a volume that has what everybody knows, and quite a lot most people don't.  In this UNCUT interview with Jim Fleming Hal Taussig describes some of the 10 books they've added and why.

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Although people have long been curious about the experience of death, the science of the question is still relatively young.

Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel is one of the leading near death experience researchers. He says all this time studying death has got him curious about his own end. 

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U.S. Marine Corps Colonel George Fenton tells Anne Strainchamps about the military’s newest “non-lethal” weapon - active denial technology.

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Alan Doyle, Bob Hallett and Sean McCann are the founding members of the band Great Big Sea. Their music has its roots in Newfoundland traditional folk music, but it rocks!

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Helen DeWitt tells Anne Strainchamps about her novel, "Lightning Rods," which focuses on a bizarre solution to sexual harrassment in the workplace.

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In Germany, his detective novels have outsold Harry Potter.

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Gary Mitchell is a Vietnam vet who's struggled with PTSD for some 40 years. He was a sniper and assigned to carry out planned assassinations.

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