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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If you’ve ever seen a movie trailer you’ve heard the voice of Don LaFontaine.  “The King of the Movie Trailer Voice-Overs” talks to Steve Paulson.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Talking about race is fraught these days, so it took guts for Paul Beatty to write his novel "The Sellout." It's a satire about a young black man who winds up on trial at the Supreme Court. And along the way, he enslaves an old friend and re-segregates the local high school.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Kilcullen, an advisor to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and an architect of the Troop Surge in Iraq under General Petraeus, talks about the problem with traditional counter-insurgency efforts.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ed Young says that even basic literacy in Chinese requires memorizing 4,000 characters.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Philip K. Dick scholar David Gill talks about Hollywood's adaptations of Philip K. Dick's novels and short stories.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Take a quick trip through some classic songs of loneliness, from the Stanley Brothers, Roy Orbison and others, and we hear them all.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Psychologist Dean Simonton tells Jim Fleming why startling discoveries are often made by young scientists. He says you can jump start your creativity by changing careers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neuro-psychologist Brian Butterworth tells Jim Fleming about his work with people who’ve lost their number sense.  Butterworth thinks we’re all hard-wired to recognize and manipulate numbers.

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