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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Do physicists think about End Times? Noted string theorist Brian Greene does. He looks into the far future - billions of years from now - and sees a very dark universe.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charles Matthewes tells Steve Paulson that while some acts deserve to be condemned, we should be careful not to exclude the perpetrators from the human race.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Edward Larson tells Steve Paulson what makes the Islands unique, and why they inspired Charles Darwin to write “The Origin of Species."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For as closely linked as the voice is to our body and sense of identity, there are also a lot of external forces affecting our voices, both social and technological. In fact, when we're talking about mediated voices—voices we hear in music, film, and of course, on the radio—we're actually not talking about "voices" any more. We're talking about signal processing. And, as media historian Jonathan Sterne tells Craig Eley, signal processing shapes the sound of all vocal media, from your telephone calls to the music of T-Pain.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Environmental writer Connie Barlow says that rhinos and elephants and tigers are native to North America and that we should bring back the Cheetah.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Assman is a German film-maker who spent time with the Iranian women's National Football Team as they played their first game in decades.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist Jon Ronson recounts his memorable night out with a real life superhero named Phoenix Jones. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Davy Rothbart is the founder and editor of “Found” Magazine. He reads some samples of the notes and lists he’s found and talks about them with Jim Fleming

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