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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

Public radio storyteller David Sedaris is often called America’s preeminent humorist.   He recently stopped by our studio before a sold-out performance in Madison and talked with Steve Paulson about how he got started as a writer, the differences between writing and performing on stage, the...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Political scientist Chandra Muzaffar, deputy president of the National Justice Party of Malaysia, tells Steve Paulson that the war is not about Islam.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Frank Warren is the founder of the blog PostSecret and author of the companion books "A Lifetime of Secrets" and "My Secret."

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

Derek Bickerton has spent more than 30 years researching Creole languages on four continents for his book, "Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages."

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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In all this talk about the future, we should probably remember that the past repeats itself. 

That’s one themes that runs through “Children of the Days,” the latest book from the lauded Latin American author, Eduardo Galeano.

You can also listen to the extended version of Steve's conversation with him.

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