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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mitchell Joaquim and the Terreform 1 team are looking for new, organic ways of building homes… and cities.  He says part of the answer might be tree houses and… meat houses. Yes, you heard that right, MEAT houses.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

MP3 formatting compresses audio so that the file becomes 75 to 95 percent smaller. But what are we missing?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ken Nordine recites his word poem "yellow".

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Travel writer Jan Morris tells Steve Paulson that she identifies with the city of Trieste which is a jumble of influences - East and West, past and present.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Nelson hikes through the Alaskan wilderness recording sounds you can't hear anywhere else, and he plays excerpts during this conversation with Anne Strainchamps.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joan Richards teaches the history of mathematics at Brown University.  Her book chronicles how her faith in mathematical laws was shaken when her son suffered a seizure.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon’s new memoir, “Girl in a Band,” is on our minds this week. The book chronicles the influential band’s career and the end of the marriage between Gordon and fellow co-founder Thurston Moore after 27 years.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Ondaatje's new novel tells the tale of an eleven year old boy who traveled on board The Oronsay from Ceylon to England in 1952.  Michael Ondaatje traveled on board The Oronsay from Ceylong to England in 1952, when he was eleven years old.  In this uncut interview he tells Jim Fleming that while one story informs the other, they are not the same.

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