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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leigh and Leslie Keno are identical twin brothers and antiques appraisers.  They talk with Jim Fleming about their lifelong love affair with treasure hunting.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We meet the Surfing Rabbi. Nachum Shifren tells Anne Strainchamps about the connection between surfing and mysticism.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jim Fadiman is one of the original psychonauts – a friend of Richard Alpert and Ken Kesey in the Sixties – who went on to do pioneering research on psychedelics and creativity, and helped found the transpersonal psychology movement. In this EXTENDED interview, Steve Paulson talks with Fadiman about a lifetime of unconventional thinking.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher at the University of Toronto, and author of "The Brain that Changes Itself." 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Pat Willard is the author of “Secrets of Saffron.”  She tells Steve Paulson how you harvest saffron and why it’s more than a flavoring.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thomas Louis Hardin is an internationally known and respected composer known for decades to New Yorkers as an eccentric street performer who dressed as a Viking and called himself "Moondog." Robert Scotto wrote his biography.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicholas Basbanes tells Steve Paulson that people destroy books to annihilate the culture of their enemies and remembers some of the heroes who fought to save books from the Nazis and in Bosnia.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In 2001, reporter Marja Mills met the celebrated and notoriously private author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee. The two struck up a friendship and, a few years after their first meeting, the two became neighbors. Mills writes about their friendship in her new memoir, “The Mockingbird Next Door.”

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