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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We share the mysterious story of the listener who sent us postcards in response to our show about handwriting.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Where does the idea of "being spiritual, not religious" come from?  It might be William James and his classic book "The Varieties of Religious Experience." 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In Laura Poitras's film "My Country, My Country" she shoots in cinema verite style and based her film on the actions of an Iranian physician and his family around the recent Iranian election.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mary Sweeney was producer, editor and co-writer of “The Straight Story.” The film concerned an elderly man’s cross country journey on a riding mower and was directed by David Lynch.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lewis Hyde invokes the cultural commons – that vast store of art and ideas from the past that enrich everybody's present.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

MD and best-selling novelist Michael Crichton talks with Jim Fleming about the ethical problems he envisions with permitting patents on human DNA.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nobody writes a dystopia quite the way Margaret Atwood does. In this EXTENDED conversation about MaddAddam - and a whole lot more - Atwood talks about utopia and dystopia, and the inherent optimism of all authors.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jeff Price founded TuneCore, where artists pay a one time flat fee to use his service and then all sales revenue belongs to them and they retain all rights to their music.

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