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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kaari Pitkin produces Radio Rookies, New York's Peabody Award winning radio project for teenagers. She and one of the Rookies, Jaimita Haskell, tell Jim Fleming about the project.

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

Every spring in Japan, people crowd under blooming cherry trees. They're signs of spring, and remembrances of life's transience.

Master gardener Sadafumi Uchiyama says the blossoms are the quintessential representation of the Japanese principle of mono no aware... beauty in the intertwining of life and death.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Environmentalist Jennifer Jacquet qrecommends "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Depression can mean two things: a downturn in the economy and an illness of the psyche.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Ayelet Waldman was struggling...with her marriage, her kids, her life.Then she took daily microdoses of LSD for a month and found a kind of beauty and calm she hadn’t known for years.

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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter T. Kilborn talks about the "new rootless professional class" that consists of mid-level managers and executives who move every few years (sometimes enormous distances, or to foreign countries) to advance their careers.

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