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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell tells Jim Fleming that dog-owners should be pack leaders but in the leadership style of Ghandi.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Physicist Janna Levin tells Steve Paulson why she wanted to write about mathematicians Alan Turing and Kurt Godel, and why her book is a novel.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michio Kaku and Jim Fleming have a grand time exploring levels of impossibility and why the impossible just takes longer.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Updike talks with Steve Paulson about the business of being interviewed.  Updike is skittish about giving interviews, but often finds himself saying more than he’d planned once he gets going.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Many in the environmental movement disagree with Brand. Paxus Calta is one. He's been an anti-nuclear activist for over 30 years. He gives his reasons for his position.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rob Walker writes the weekly column "Consumed," for the New York Times Magazine...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Jennifer Egan talks with Jim Fleming about the middle eastern terrorist at the heart of her novel “Look at Me,” and how she reacted to the events of September 11th.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss tells Steve Paulson that the latest news in cosmology is that the universe is still expanding and at an accelerating rate.

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