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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Biologist Richard Dawkins is the man the Intelligent Design Movement loves to hate.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

So, National Parks are the greatest thing since sliced bread. And everyone loves them. Right? Well, not so fast.  In the past couple years, a small group of Republicans have introduced bills that would seriously curtailing the creation of new National Parks and roll back protections of existing ones. These have been dubbed the “No More National Parks” bills. None of these bills have become law. Yet.Claire Moser works for the Public Lands Project for The Center for American Progress and she is trying to steop those bills.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Matthew Carter designed Verdana, the internet font; Helvetica, the most ubiquitous font family in the world; and Bell Centennial, the phone book font.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Liza Dalby is the first Western woman to become a geisha. Dalby tells Steve Paulson what being a geisha means and explains why modern women have trouble wearing kimonos.

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Art critic and historian Michael Fried talks about his early days in New York and his friendship with the gifted and difficult dean of American critics, Clement Greenberg.

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People do without money in many different ways – from simple bartering to using bitcoin on-line. A group of parents in Madison did it by creating a babysitting coop.

Want to start your own babysitting COOP? Here are their guidelines.

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Visionary computer scientist Jaron Lanier talks about his new book, "Who Owns the Future?"

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Frances Perkins was the woman behind the New Deal as she was sworn in as Secretary of Labor under Franklin Roosevelt.

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