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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Professor of Christian philosophy Nancey Murphy tells Steve Paulson Christians would be better off without the soul.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Austerity is a choice, and some question if it's a good one.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Poet Molly Peacock's biography of the 18th century paper artist, Mary Delaney.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John McWhorter teaches linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of “Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care.” 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicholas Harberd spent a year observing a thalecress in a country churchyard. He kept a diary.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jean Edward Smith is the author of "FDR," and tells Jim Fleming about Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court-packing scandal of 1937.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ed Boyden, a researcher at MIT, is at the forefront of a new science that aims to map and even heal the brain with light.  It’s called optogenetics, and the journal Science has called it one of the great insights of the 21st century.   It’s in its early days, but the goal is to one day be able to take a disease like depression, PTSD, or epilepsy and, using bursts of light, just turn it off -- the same way you’d fix a software glitch in a computer.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A ghost story from listener Eric Van Vleet.

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