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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Susan Krieger not completely blind, but her vision is bad enough to make her legally blind. She recently got a guide dog, Teela, who is now her constant companion.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ever feel overwhelmed by digital technology? You're not alone. Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff says it's changing our relationship to time, and we're having trouble adapting.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Photographer Rachel Sussman has documented 30 of the oldest living things in the world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dame Evelyn Glennie is considered one of the greatest percussionists alive today.  She’s also deaf. 

To watch/listen to her perform CLICK HERE.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Russell Simmons has been called the godfather of hip hop.  He tells Steve Paulson he got his start selling street drugs as a teenager.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There's a great urbanization afoot in China. The government plans to move more than 100 million people into cities by 2020. But there's an old divide between rural and urban citizens. What happens when they become neighbors?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three "violence interrupters" who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once doled out. They believe that violence spreads like an infectious diseases, so the treatment should be similar: stop the infection at its source.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Wailin’ Jennys talk about the joys and mystery of harmony, and sing a few examples. 

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