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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nearly 600,000 people are homeless on any given night in America, and despite the obstacles, some do ultimately find their way out. Victor McDonald is one who did.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We are part of an immensely creative universe. Cosmologist Brian Swimme and Religion scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explain.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thomas Hardy's biographer tells Steve Paulson how his wife's death transformed the rest of Hardy's life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carl Safina tells Jim Fleming about the leatherback turtle, which has been around for a hundred million years.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Kalder is from Scotland, but lived in Russia for several years and discovered that at heart he's an anti-tourist.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Benedict Le Vay tells Jim Fleming that many customs still exist in England and are extremely important to the community, even though the reason for them is long forgotten.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Apostolos Doxiadis tells Judith Strasser about his novel “Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture,” in which a man becomes obsessed with solving a mathematical proof.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Canadian novelist Sheila Heti talks about her new novel, "How Should a Person Be?" It's fiction, but the characters are real people -- they seem to be Sheila herself and her friends.  Some of the dialogue is from actual conversations she transcribed.  So what is this thing?

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