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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Have you had culture shock? Did it hit when you were travelling or when you were at home?

Writer Josh Swiller says, as a young man, he often felt outside his home culture. 
 
He decided to leave the U.S. altogether and found a whole new world of challenging inter-cultural communication.
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Psychologist Michael Thompson consults with school systems about how to communicate with boys.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Randy Olson is a Harvard-trained evolutionary biologist and creator of the documentary film "Flock of Dodos."

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M.J. Ryan wants to revive the custom of saying grace before meals.  She tells Jim Fleming how she became a collector of mealtime blessings.

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Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize winning senior editor of the Washington Post’s Bookworld has written a memoir called “An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland.”

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Writer Ayelet Waldman was struggling...with her marriage, her kids, her life.Then she took daily microdoses of LSD for a month and found a kind of beauty and calm she hadn’t known for years.

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The best pies use ugly, tasty, local apples and have a good crust according to John T. Edge.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Throughout the month of April, To the Best of Our Knowledge will celebrate poetry with a unique take on how we can use the form to process the world around us, and to establish a sense of place and identity in that world. 

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