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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Hannah Holmes tells Jim Fleming what’s really in those dust bunnies under the bed and that we all have traces of the Gobi desert and space dust on our stuff.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Gary Wolkstein's doctor told him he had terminal cancer, but after being challenged by some of Wolkstein’s physician friends, changes his mind.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When people let go of religion, they often let go of the fellowship and community that go along with the faith.  But Greg Epstein is trying to change that.  As Harvard University's Humanist Chaplain, he's forging new models of community-building without God.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

George Dyson tells Anne Strainchamps that his father was on the team that imagined using tiny atomic bombs to propel a huge spaceship around the solar system.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight. When his tour ended, he collected his poems into a book called "Here, Bullet." This one is called "A Night in Blue."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. She's the author of the feminist classic, "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women," and a book about American manhood called "Stiffed." Now she's back with her most personal story -- about her struggle to deal with her father's unexpected revelation.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Haggai Matar is an eighteen year old Israeli “refusenik.”  He tells Steve Paulson why he’ll go to prison rather than serve in the Israeli army in the Occupied Territories.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Gary Brecher is a data entry clerk in Fresno, California. But he's better known as "War Nerd," which is the title of his column in Moscow's English language alternative newspaper and his book, "The War Nerd."

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