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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Meg Graham is the co-author (with Alec Shuldiner) of “Corning and the Craft of Innovation.”  She says that Corning has a long tradition of nurturing innovation and accommodating eccentricity.

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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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Robert Price thinks people would be better off if they stuck to mainstream religion rather than what he considers the "dumbed down" versions.

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As editor of Poetry Magazine, Christian Wiman reads thousands of new poems a year. Who better to check in with on the state of English language poetry? 

Hear Wiman talk about his own writing here.

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Steve Almond has loved football his whole life. But after investigating the violence and social ills that shape football, he explains why he no longer watches his favorite sport.

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Neil Baldwin tells Jim Fleming that Henry Ford was a virulent anti-Semite who bought a newspaper to publish his Jewish conspiracy propaganda.

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Since Michael Brown was shot, there's a new round of calls for a national conversation about racism. Is that realistic? Are we ready for what we might hear? A couple of years ago, NPR's Michele Norris told us about how a family secret sparked difficult conversations.

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Susan Tom has adopted a dozen or so special needs children, plus has two of her own.  Jonathan Karsh has made a film about her family called “My Flesh and Blood.”

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