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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

TTBOOK producer Doug Gordon attempts to interview Chris Murphy and Patrick Pentland of the Halifax Indie band Sloan.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If we think of cities as organisms, their DNA is the hodgepodge of rules that shape development. Urban planner Emily Talen talks about how city zoning, coding and laws got started, and how they need to be changed to help us build more livable cities.

Take a look at a visual archive of city plans.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The average American voter is NOT smarter than a 5th grader, doesn't understand basic political facts and should probably not be allowed to vote. Philosopher Jason Brennan makes the case for an epistocracy: the rule of the knowledgeable.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Where are the female scalawags?  The lady rogue? Well, Anne Strainchamps set out to find out.  She called up Elizabeth Mahon, author of the blog and the book of the same name: “Scandalous Women.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Karen Russell bookmarks "A High Wind in Jamaica," by Richard Hughes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Perkins, founding member of Harvard think tank Project Zero, talks with Anne Strainchamps about Eureka Moments.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Corby Kummer tells Anne Strainchamps about French fleur de sel and it’s Portugese cousin flor de sal.  They’re exotic and expensive gourmet sea salts that taste fabulous.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carlos Ruiz Zafon tells Jim Fleming that his recent books are part of a sort of Chinese box set of four inter-related novels involving the same characters and his native city of Barcelona.

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