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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University.  She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Libeskind is the architect whose design was chosen to the master-plan for the new World Trade Center site.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Blanche Barton is the former High Priestess of the Church of Satan. She tells Steve Paulson that Satanists are outsiders who do not worship Satan.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Antonio Damasio says by understanding the details of what the body is doing when we experience an emotion, science will be able to develop better therapies and interventions.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Philosopher David Chalmers is famous for outlining the "hard problem of consciousness."  He says the materialist framework of science will never be able to explain subjective experience. 

You can listen to the EXTENDED interview - and find the transcript - here.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Where's the line between craft, art and design? The head of research at London's Victoria and Albert Museum says, at heart, craft is about "showing your commitment to an idea."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For as closely linked as the voice is to our body and sense of identity, there are also a lot of external forces affecting our voices, both social and technological. In fact, when we're talking about mediated voices—voices we hear in music, film, and of course, on the radio—we're actually not talking about "voices" any more. We're talking about signal processing. And, as media historian Jonathan Sterne tells Craig Eley, signal processing shapes the sound of all vocal media, from your telephone calls to the music of T-Pain.

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