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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Have you had culture shock? Did it hit when you were travelling or when you were at home?

Writer Josh Swiller says, as a young man, he often felt outside his home culture. 
 
He decided to leave the U.S. altogether and found a whole new world of challenging inter-cultural communication.
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Cissy Chandler was 18 years older than her husband, which he may or may not have ever known.

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Poderopedia's goal is to make those connections more transparent.  It’s a crowd-sourced map of business and political power in Chile.

 

CLICK HERE FOR A VIDEO IN ENGLISH EXPLAINING PODEROPEDIA.

HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA VER UN VIDEO EN ESPANOL QUE EXPLICA PODEROPEDIA.
 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

M.J. Ryan wants to revive the custom of saying grace before meals.  She tells Jim Fleming how she became a collector of mealtime blessings.

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Rita Golden Gelman tells Anne Strainchamps how she became a professional nomad, and recounts some stories from her travels in Bali and rural Mexico.

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Joan Didion, who died last week at the age of 87, helped shape a highly personal brand of nonfiction that came to be known as the New Journalism. Her early essay collections "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (1968) and "The White Album" (1979) influenced generations of writers. Her later memoirs, "The Year of Magical Thinking" and "Blue Nights," chronicled the deaths of her husband and daughter. In 2011 Didion talked with Steve Paulson about illness and growing old in the wake of the death of her daughter, Quintana.

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For years, Paul Ewald's been trying to convince people that cancer is caused by germs, not genes.

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Lauren Weedman was adopted. When she got curious about her birth parents, her adoptive mother organized a conspiracy to track them down.

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