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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Feig is the creator of the critically acclaimed TV series “Freaks and Geeks.”  He says that the show (which is no longer on the air) was based on his real-life adolescence.

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Olga Nunes records voicemail memories of smell.

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Karal Ann Marling tells Anne Strainchamps that American Christmas traditions led to an improvement in the status of women and helped nurture manufacturing industries from candy to cardboard.

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Rev. Jesse Jackson is not about to go quietly. He tells Steve Paulson not to confuse a music genre with basic freedoms, and outlines his contributions as a Civil Rights leader over the past 40 years.

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Legendary Knopf editor Judith Jones reflects on Julia Child and her influence on cooking in the U.S. She writes about their friendship In her own memoir, "The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food.”

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Novelist Nicholson Baker exposed what he called libraries’ assault on paper in a book called “Double Fold.”

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Lincoln Hall is an Australian mountain climber. He tells Jim Fleming about his fatal adventure on Mt. Everest, the subject of his book "Dead Lucky: Life after Death on Mount Everest."

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Jill Fredston tells Jim Fleming how avalanches happen. She says it has everything to do with the terrain and the condition of the snowpack.

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