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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In this short excerpt, Jane Goodall talks about her lifelong wish to get inside the mind of a chimpanzee.  What's it like to think without words?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paula Kamen has had the same headache for 14 years. Her book is “All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

physicist Robert Park says we’re inundated with pseudo-science and gives some examples of famous “scientific” scams and failures.  Park’s book is “Voodoo Science.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Douglas Rushkoff talks about his book, "Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back." 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Physicist Michio Kaku tells Steve Paulson that he thinks there’s more and more evidence to support the idea of the multi-verse, boiling space and projects the possibility of humanity cloning itself into a new universe.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neil Innes wrote and sang the tunes for The Rutles, who were Eric Idle’s parody of The Beatles.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Maggie Nelson talks to Steve Paulson about her new book, "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Where does obsessive collecting come from? And what does it mean? Lorraine Daston takes us back to 17th century Europe and the nobility’s Kunstkamera, or chambers of wonders.  They were filled with nature’s freaks and anomalies.  But these marvels, these monsters, gave birth to modern science.

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