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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Raphael Kadushin is a senior travel writer for Conde Nast magazines, and author of "Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mawi Asgedom fled the civil war in Ethiopia and spent part of his childhood in a refugee camp in Sudan, but ended up giving the commencement address at his Harvard graduation.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Comedian Lewis Black is an angry man. He talks with Jim Fleming about the fine line between playing angry and being angry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neil Steinberg booked passage to Italy for both him and his father on his father’s old ship. He hoped it would bring them closer together. As he tells Anne Strainchamps, it didn’t.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Julia Whitty tells Jim Fleming about her life as a master diver and film-maker among the coral reefs in the South Pacific.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is a leading expert on the science of mindfulness.  He's teamed up with the Dalai Lama to put Buddhist monks in brain scanners, and he's developing a new scientific model for studying emotion. 

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paleontologist Peter Ward tells Steve Paulson that big carnivores are unlikely to survive outside zoos but creatures that can survive around humans - like rats and coyotes - will thrive in the future.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Travel writer Jeff Greenwald tells travel stories to Jim Fleming and explains why he thinks that since September 11th, it’s more important than even that people try to understand other lands.

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