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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Hawken is the author of "Blessed Unrest." He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the quantity and variety of people and organizations involved in the global activism movement.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"See them before they're gone" is the Lanza family's motto.  Michael Lanza describes his quest to take his two young kids -- ages 7 and 9 -- to as many wilderness locations as possible, to see glaciers and icebergs and coral reefs, before climate change destroys them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sports Illustrated writer Jeff MacGregor spent a year on the NASCAR circuit and writes about it in "Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death!"

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nathan Radke talks about why the characters from the “Peanuts” comic strip can be seen as acting out the dilemmas of existentialism. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Reality TV manipulates the lives of its participants but we watch it anyway. Why are we so hooked?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Margaret MacMillan tells Jim Fleming how a lot of today’s troubles in the Middle East stem from the way the Versailles Treaty after the First World War carved up the Ottoman Empire with no consideration of the Arabs’ political aspirations.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonnie Hughes talks about about his book, "On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicole Smith pilots an Army Apache AH 64 attack helicopter.  She is the only African American female to do so.

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