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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Why are we so obsessed with finding someone who completes us?  What if we're already complete?  That's what Michael Cobb wonders.  In his book "Single" he argues that it's time to take the pressure off couples and look at other ways of living.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nick Cook tells Steve Paulson that there seems to be something called zero point energy. Once we build the technology to master  it, we’ll solve all our energy problems.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonathan Lethem talks about "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick," the project Dick obsessed over during the last eight years of his life as he tried to come to terms with a series of strange visionary experiences.

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Jim Fleming speaks with Khaled Hosseini, author of "The Kite Runner."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Randall Kennedy tells Steve Paulson about some notorious cases where racially mixed children were left in impossible situations by state miscegenation laws.

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John Berendt tells Anne Strainchamps that Venice still feels like a stage set, and that Venetians still carry on in dramatic, even operatic ways.

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Richard Zacks, author of “The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd,” tells Jim Fleming that Kidd, was a privateer - a pirate hunter - not a pirate.

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Margaret MacMillan explains the historical context of the Nixon trip to China and how it changed the course of history.

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