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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Howard Axelrod was accidentally blinded in one eye in a freak accident when he was in college.  Disoriented and depressed, he retreated to an off-the-grid cabin in the Vermont wilderness.  He stayed there, alone, for 2 years.  Now he's published a memoir about his period of renunciation, "The Point of Vanishing."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Science writer Winifred Gallagher has come to the rescue of the decor challenged with her book "House Thinking: A Room by Room Look at How We Live." 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tariq Ramadan is a Swiss-born philosopher who travels throughout the Islamic world trying to build bridges between European Muslim and conservative clerics.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Russell Foster tells Jim Fleming how the body uses light to tell time; why night shift workers have more accidents; and why it can matter when you take your medicine.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steven Kotler spurned religion until he came down with Lyme Disease and spent three years on the couch. Then a friend took him surfing and he began to get better. Surfing became his religion.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Harvard University historian John Stauffer talks with Steve Paulson about whether or not Lincoln was a racist.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A short story by science fiction writer John Scalzi, read by Adam Hirsch.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sarah Stewart Taylor is a Vermont mystery writer who's fascinated by cemeteries. She walks through the Sawnee Bean Cemetery near Thetford, Vermont with Steve Paulson.

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