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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss talks with Steve Paulson about the cosmology of the end of the universe. The big bang will also have a big finish!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What did FDR understand about democracy that our current political leaders – on both sides of the aisle – have forgotten. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steven Pollock, a legendary figure in the psychedelic underground, was murdered in 1981. Journalist Hamilton Morris investigates this unsolved murder and uncovers the largely forgotten story of Pollock, a brilliant - if renegade - scientist.

Here's Morris' article from Harpers, "Blood Spore"

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Maude Barlow is the co-author (with Tony Clark) of “Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Theft of the World’s Water.”  She tells Jim Fleming that corporations are taking over the world’s water, often with the assistance of governments who privatize municipal water systems.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Updike is celebrated as a novelist but is also an essayist and art critic.

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Rob Tannenbaum and Sean Altman wrote and perform the music and comedy show called “What I Like About Jew.”

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Justin O. Schmidt has been stung by nearly every insect with a stinger, from the benign honeybee to the viscious tarantula hawk wasp. He is a research biologist and professor at the University of Arizona school of Entomology and he told Steve Paulson about his creation, the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jim Fleming provides an essay on the recent death of his mother.

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