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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

With federal immigration reform discussions stalled, we're thinking about borders this week. One project is tyring to put a face to the rising number of children who are making the journey alone, and illegally, into the United States. Encarni Pindado is Director of MigraZoom, which helps migrants tell their own migration experience through photos.

See a slideshow of MigraZoom photos.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Marcus Du Sautoy talks with Jim Fleming about prime numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis and why it’s such an important puzzle for mathematicians.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paco Underhill tells Jim Fleming what malls do to get you to buy things.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Leyner talks to Jim Fleming about his mind-bending, synapse-shattering new novel, "The Sugar Frosted Nutsack."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Penelope Fitzgerald is considered one of the great British novelists of the last half-century. Remarkably, she didn't begin writing until she was nearly 60 - and that's partly what attracted biographer Hermione Lee.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Nichols tells Jim Fleming about the Golden Globe race of 1968, when a group of unprepared sailors in inadequate craft attempted to sail alone around the world. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Children’s author Katherine Paterson tells Steve Paulson that too many people deny the emotional reality of childhood.  Her books are popular because she recognizes the fears children face.

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Paul Krugman won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics and teaches at Princeton. His latest book is "The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008."

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