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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Can you actually see creativity in the brain?   Neuroscientist Rex Jung describes brain imaging studies of creativity in action.

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mimi Sheraton is the author of “The Bialy Eaters: The Story of a Bread and a Lost World.”  She explains what she found when she traveled to Bialystock.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Architect Lisa Mahar is the author of “American Signs: Form and Meaning on Route 66.”  She says that the signs started out plain, but became grandiose neon monuments by the 1950s.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Biographer Joan Schenkar thinks Patricia Highsmith deserves to be recognized as the author of one of the great American novels.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rick Lyman's book “Watching Movies: The Biggest Names in Cinema Talk about the Films that Matter Most” tells of time spent with Woody Allen, Sissy Spacek, Ang Lee and others, watching other peoples’ films.

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Luke Rhinehart published a novel in the 70s that became a cult classic. “The Dice Man” involves a psychiatrist who opens his life to new possibilities by basing his actions on a throw of the diced

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John McNally is the author of “The Book of Ralph: A Fiction.” McNally tells Steve Paulson about the real life kids who served as the models for his character Ralph, a trouble-maker.

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Historian and philosopher of science Robert Richards tells Steve Paulson that Charles Darwin himself believed evolution marches inevitably toward greater complexity.

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