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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Clyde Roper tells Jim Fleming what giant squid look like and what else biologists are learning about the deep ocean while the hunt for giant squid goes on.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Comic novelist David Lodge takes on the old battle between science and the humanities in his latest book, “Thinks.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Tammett loves numbers, can do calculations in his head into the millions, and can recite pi to more than 22,000 digits. But he has trouble telling right from left and looking people in the eye.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Entomologist Deborah Gordon tells Steve Paulson that ant colonies run with no one in charge.  She’s spent years figuring out how they do it.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eula Biss recommends "The Argonauts" by Maggie Nelson.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Edmonds talks with Jim Fleming about Bobby Fischer’s infamous chess match with Boris Spassky for the World Chess Championship in 1972.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

He's produced albums for Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and Foo Fighters. After decades in the business, Butch Vig says that new technologies are changing the music industry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Don Lattin says the whole strange trip started when Leary swallowed some magic mushrooms in Mexico in 1960.

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