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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Derick Burleson won the Felix Pollack Prize for his collection of poems about Rwanda, called "Ejo."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Imagine what it would feel like if everywhere you went, people assumed you needed help… if complete strangers insisted on giving you a hand, whether you wanted it or not?   

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Cavicchi spent three years talking to his fellow  Bruce Springsteen fans. The result is a book called “Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Biologist Cindy Engel tells Steve Paulson that wild animals self-medicate in a number of ways and that there is really no difference for animals between nutrition and medicine.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carel Van Schaik tells Steve Paulson that orangutans, those great red apes, use tools and pass learning down from one generation to the next.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist and philosopher, and author of "Becoming Animal."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

This six minute short film sets a typical frat house scene with heightened visual intensity: beer pong, drunk girls, guys with their shirts off doing shots, hazing rituals, fights. The twist is that the guy at the center of the film is clearly attracted to one of his frat brothers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonathan Lethem bookmarks "Kafka Was the Rage" by Anatole Broyard.

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