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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Poet Molly Peacock's biography of the 18th century paper artist, Mary Delaney.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

She is "the Queen of Norwegian Crime" with a series of internationally best-selling stories of psychological suspense.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Musician Joe Jackson talks with Jim Fleming about his concept album “Heaven and Hell” which is based on the Seven Deadly Sins.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist Marc Cooper tells Jim Fleming that Las Vegas has its own integrity in that all that matters there is money and the city is completely honest about that.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ed Boyden, a researcher at MIT, is at the forefront of a new science that aims to map and even heal the brain with light.  It’s called optogenetics, and the journal Science has called it one of the great insights of the 21st century.   It’s in its early days, but the goal is to one day be able to take a disease like depression, PTSD, or epilepsy and, using bursts of light, just turn it off -- the same way you’d fix a software glitch in a computer.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In 2005, New York Times journalist Eric Lichtblau wrote a series of articles about the surveillance – without warrants – of some Americans’ international phone calls and e-mails. The Times won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting. In 2008, Steve asked Lichtblau about covering the NSA’s warrantless wire-tapping program.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Natasha Trethewey reads Photography, October 1911.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist Kevin Krajick's book tells the story of geologists Chuck Fipke and Stew Blusson, a couple of small-time prospectors who went looking for diamonds in the Canadian tundra.

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