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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this short excerpt, Jane Goodall talks about her lifelong wish to get inside the mind of a chimpanzee.  What's it like to think without words?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

At the age of 28, Chinese pianist Lang Lang has already played with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic and all of the top American orchestras.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Producer Charles Monroe-Kane lives a few blocks from the house where an Afrian-American teenager was recently killed by a white police officer. The impacts of the shooting have been rippling through the mixed-race neighborhood. Charles and his family are whiet. Here's how they are responding.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Will we ever understand the true nature of dark matter and dark energy?  Harvard cosmologist Lisa Randall considers these and other great mysteries in physics.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Brend tells Anne Strainchamps about odd inventions like the Ondes Martenot and how composers have used them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Joanna Trollope reads from "Second Honeymoon" and talks about why the empty nest syndrome is particularly difficult for women.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Carthusian order of Monks believe in complete withdrawal from the world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Some people went to war, some went to Canada, and others did alternative service. Coleman went to prison for refusing to fight. His memoir, “Spoke” tells the story of how he decided. 

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