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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Whose America is it?   Writer Thomas King has strong feelings about that.  He says Native Americans have been many things to white people.   Slaves, stereotypes, savages.   And always inconvenient.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lani Leary has worked with thousands of dying people and their families. She’s been at the bedside of more than 500 people at the moment of death. Her dedication to working with the dying and bereaved goes back to the painful experience of her own mother’s death when she was a child, when her family told her nothing about how her mother died.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A growing number of secular scientists and philosophers are rejecting the term "atheist" in favor of a definition that acknowledges the wonder and mystery of the world around us.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

As far as questions of neurology, perhaps no creature is more mysterious and amazing than the octopus. In this EXTENDED interview, science writer Sy Montgomery talks about what she discovered when she met Athena, an octopus at the New England Aquarium.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

First it was farm-to-table, now the latest wave in food is wild. Hunter, angler, gardener and cook Hank Shaw is part of shaping the return to wild foods. In this EXTENDED interview with Sara Nics, he talks deep fried duck tongues and why wild food tastes better. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tom Matthews' first novel, “Like We Care,” tells what happens when some teenagers simply stop spending money on all the stuff that’s marketed to them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Scott Weidensaul talks with Jim Fleming about several animals that have turned up after their species was thought to be extinct.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist T. Coraghessan Boyle talks with Jim Fleming about his latest.  “Drop City” is set in a California commune in the 1970s, and concerns the activities at one of America’s many private little Utopias.

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