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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mindless Eating author and Ithaca native, Brian Wansink, cleans his plate on stage with Michael.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Keli Carender is a Tea Party activist – in fact, she was the very first Tea Party activist. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carlos Ruiz Zafon tells Jim Fleming that his recent books are part of a sort of Chinese box set of four inter-related novels involving the same characters and his native city of Barcelona.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Maybe the silver lining to any break-up is the soundtrack. You get the sad songs and the sorry songs. When you're tired of tears on your pillow and ready to revive, there are the angry break-up songs.

In this EXTENDED interview with producer Sara Nics, Jason Saldanha and Robin Linn of WBEZ's Sound Opinions talk blame, revenge and moving on.

WARNING: In this extended version, there is profanity in some of the lyrics.

Want to see the full list of suggested break-up song? Here it is.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Jill Lepore talks about her restless search for the long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time."  It ran some nine million words and was supposedly the work of a madman named Joe Gould, who believed he was the 20th century's most brilliant historian.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charles Taylor was convicted of mass murder, rape, and sexual slavery, among other crimes this week by the ICC. One of his top warlords, infamous for using child soldiers, is seeking redemption. Listen to this NEW and UNCUT interview about General Butt Naked.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Levitin runs McGill University's Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jim Fleming and his wife spent a day in Paris being guided around the most fabulous chocolate shops by former Chez Panisse pastry chef, David Lebovitz.

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