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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neuro-psychologist Brian Butterworth tells Jim Fleming about his work with people who’ve lost their number sense.  Butterworth thinks we’re all hard-wired to recognize and manipulate numbers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Frank Warren is the founder of the blog PostSecret and author of the companion books "A Lifetime of Secrets" and "My Secret."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Hajdu recently wrote a controversial article for The New Republic about the legacy of Alan Lomax. Lomax and his father made field recordings of thousands of folk and blues songs including work by Leadbelly and Muddy Waters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anyone who works in news will tell you that photographs drive attention.  That a great photograph can propel a story or an issue from the sidelines to the center of a public conversation.  Large-scale photographer Edward Burtynsky is making it his life’s work to jump start a global conversation about sustainability – by photographing scarred, damaged industrial landscapes.  He’s a TED prize winner whose work is in more than 50 museum collections.  Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal have worked together on two documentaries.  Steve Paulson talked with her about their first – filmed in China.  It’s called  “Manufactured Landscapes.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chuck Taggart is the producer and compiler of a CD box set called “Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol’ Box of New Orleans.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Aubrey de Grey has identified seven categories of molecular and cellular damage. He says if we can prevent or repair that damage, there's no reason why people can't go on living indefinitely.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

New York Times writer went to Stockholm to track down the back story of the Millennium series and its author who died suddenly.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Ben Cheever, son of John Cheever, talks with Jim Fleming about the price of fame and remembers the way people treated him because of his famous father.

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