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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Austin Kleon talks about his book, "Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Christa Weil talks about eating national dishes like putrefied shark meat and her curious experience eating blow fish in Japan.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A young man named Black Nature is one of the Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars. He tells how the group formed while fleeing from the brutality and bloodshed of their country's civil war.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Clayton Eshleman is a poet who’s turned his poetic sensibility loose on the paleolithic cave drawings at Lascaux in France.  He talks about these drawings represent shamanic spirit journeys and rituals.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carole Case wrote a history of New York’s Jockey Club, the elite cartel that controls the thoroughbred stud book.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Death is not a single moment; it’s can take hours – and some people live again after they die. So says resuscitation physician Sam Parnia. This UNCUT interview with him ranges from the new science of reversing death, to near death experiences, and the possibility of consciousness after death.  

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Poet Billy Collins bookmarks "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst."

 

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Karen Armstrong is the author of nearly 20 books on religion. She tells Steve Paulson that traditions from Confucianism to Judaism emerged as responses to the rampant violence of their time. And she says our own time has a lot in common with that age.

 

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