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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Athlete and fashion model Aimee Mullins, owner of more than a dozen pairs of the most fabulous prosthetic legs you can imagine.  Her superpowers.

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Vikram Chandra writes in English, the language of the colonizer, and faces accusations that he's not really an Indian writer.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stephen Marche is the author of "How Shakespeare Changed Everything." He tells Anne Strainchamps why he thinks Shakespeare is the most important figure in history.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tamora Pierce tells Anne Strainchamps why she has devoted her career to creating strong female characters who challenge and exceed their societies' expectations of them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For decades, urbanists have said that ordinary people already know how to solve problems in their communities. 

Al Letson says what he's seen around the United States proves that true. Letson's the host of the public radio program, State of the Re:Union.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rupert Sheldrake may be the most famous scientific heretic in the modern world. On the 50th anniversary of Thomas Kuhn’s landmark book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” Sheldrake does his own paradigm busting.  In this UNCUT interview, he tells Steve why he believes scientific dogmas are preventing real intellectual inquiry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Cats have convinced some of their owners that cats deserve legal citizenship.  Be afraid. Be very afraid.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Scientists are combing the universe for signs of exoplanets -- planets that orbit a star other than our sun.  They're finding them in record numbers.  Most believe it's only a matter of time before they find an exoplanet that can -- and perhaps does -- suppport life.  Sara Seager is a planetary scientist at M.I.T. and one of the pioneers of the field. 

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