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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In a small studio in Brooklyn, one artist is reimagining selfies. Erin Riley finds online self-portraits and transforms them into larger-than-life tapestries. The woven women don’t have faces… but they do have stories.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Scott Weidensaul talks with Jim Fleming about several animals that have turned up after their species was thought to be extinct.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Many of history's greatest scientists, from Newton to Maxwell to Einstein, have devoted significant study to the behavior of light, and, as a result, most physicists thought there was little left to say on the subject. But in April 2016, Paul Eastham, a physicist at Trinity College in Dublin, published a new paper proving that a fundamental assumption scientists had made about light was wrong. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Brodner talks about what makes a good political cartoon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Simon Montefiore is the author of “Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar.”  He says Stalin was more complex than we thought, but still a monster.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When blogger Jenny Lawson recently tweeted about an awkward exchange she had with a cashier at an airport, she couldn't have imagined the flood of responses she'd get from fans recounting their own mortifying moments. The tweet went viral and within a few days she'd received thousands of messages from fans recounting their own awkward stories. The whole affair was proof of something Jenny had long suspected -- that awkwardness can help bring people together.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steven Okazaki is a third generation Japanese-American and an Academy Award winning film-maker. He tells Jim Fleming that Japanese-Americans face racism both at home and in Japan.

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