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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

It’s 2055, a regular weekday morning… Where do you wake up? With a booming population and more people moving into urban areas, chances are you’d be living in a city. But what might that city look like? Mitchell Joaquim is an architect, and one of the founders of the innovative design group, TerreForm1.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jazz musician Ben Sidran talks with Jim Fleming about the tremendous influence Jewish immigrant composers and songwriters had on American popular music.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Kilcullen, an advisor to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and an architect of the Troop Surge in Iraq under General Petraeus, talks about the problem with traditional counter-insurgency efforts.

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Brain sciences are overturning centuries of old thinking about human nature.

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Music historian Henry Sapoznik tells the story of Blind Alfred Reed and one of the early American protest songs.

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Psychologist Dean Simonton tells Jim Fleming why startling discoveries are often made by young scientists. He says you can jump start your creativity by changing careers.

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Scott Carrier is a Peabody award winning radio journalist who takes the time to really interview and listen to folks other journalist tend to not take seriously. Like those men in Oregon who are occupying federal land. Anne Strainchamps asked Scott what the men there were like.

 

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Steve Almond recommends "Stoner" by John Williams.

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