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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rita Golden Gelman tells Anne Strainchamps how she became a professional nomad, and recounts some stories from her travels in Bali and rural Mexico.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Keith Donohue's novel is "The Stolen Child." He tells Jim Fleming the book's about a boy who's stolen by fairies and the boy who replaces him in the human world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a visionary economist who founded the micro-credit movement and India's Grameen Bank.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

With so much curriculum to get through in school - should we still be teaching handwriting?  Kitty Burns Florey says - yes!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Stoller is an anthropologist who studied sorcery with the Songhay people in Niger. Years later he developed lymphoma and only then did he understand some of what his teacher had been trying to teach him.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Noah Levine talks to Anne Strainchamps about the fusion of Buddhism and punk rock, dharma-punx.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is a leading expert on the science of mindfulness.  He's teamed up with the Dalai Lama to put Buddhist monks in brain scanners, and he's developing a new scientific model for studying emotion. 

You can also listen to the EXTENDED interview, and read the extended transcript.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Thurman tells Anne Strainchamps about the Buddhist concept of self and why it leads to compassion and understanding.

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