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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tom Szaky tells Jim Fleming how his company turns candy wrappers and juice bottles into pencil cases and backpacks.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Sean Wilentz tells Jim Fleming the birth of Dylan’s music is deeply bound up in the politics of the time.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Taner Edis says the state of science is dismal in the Muslim world today.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Oxford English Dictionary was created in 1857, and was expected to be finished within ten years. The first edition was finally completed 71 years later.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ziauddin Sardar responds to the question "is there really a clash of civilizations?"

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

This book really got us excited. 12 x 36. 10 pounds. Everyone wanted to touch it. Borrow it. Talk about it. It felt like magic. And the title was just as mysterious – Codex Seraphinianus. Publisher Charles Mier tell us what the hell it is (and what is isn't).

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Russell Foster tells Jim Fleming how the body uses light to tell time; why night shift workers have more accidents; and why it can matter when you take your medicine.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robin Swicord wrote and directed "The Jane Austen Book Club."  She talks with Anne Strainchamps.

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