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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Hebb is the founder of “Let’s Have Dinner and Talk About Death," a movement that encourages people to get together with friends to discuss end of life issues.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stephanie Elkins had never heard of ASMR when we started looking for people who experience the tingles and euphoria that people are calling autonomous sensory meridian response.

She wondered just what ASMR might be, and what triggers would give her the tingles.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Elisabet Sahtouris has no truck with Biblical creationists but thinks the standard story of evolution has major problems.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Drew Kampion tells Steve Paulson about some of the biggest happenings in modern surf culture. Kampion is the author of the book “Stoked: A History of Surf Culture.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jazz performer Esperanza Spalding shares what a lifetime of improvising has taught her about reconciliation.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Most people think of conflict as something to be avoided, but there's another way to view it -- as creative and generative. In his book "The Art of Rivalry," Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee explores how intense conflicts, broken friendships and personal reconciliations fueled some of the most dramatic breakthroughs in Modern Art. He tells Steve Paulson that the rivalry between Picasso and Matisse contributed, in part, to cubism.

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Daniel Wilson, author of “How to Survive a Robot Uprising” tells Jim Fleming the secret is to go for their sensors!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon has created a nearly perfect summer music festival in Eau Claire, Wisconsin -- his hometown.  25,000 people spent two days camping by a river, throwing frisbees and listening to indie bands. Festival narrator and local writer Michael Perry shares the story behind the town, the festival, and the musical legend.

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