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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Eoin Colfer is the author of the Artemis Fowl books.  There are five of them now. The latest on is called "The Lost Colony."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Father Thomas Keating is considered by some people one of the world's greatest living mystics.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Aubrey de Grey has identified seven categories of molecular and cellular damage. He says if we can prevent or repair that damage, there's no reason why people can't go on living indefinitely.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When and how did American get so polarized? For answers, Jonathan Chait recommends reading "What Hath God Wrought,"  a history of American politics from 1815-1848 by the Pulitzer prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If you’re old enough, you’ll remember the Monkees, the pop group with a hit TV show. Michael Nesmith wore the green stocking cap. Since then, he’s reinvented his career several times over. He (sort of) invented country rock. And the music video.

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

Most young men during the Vietnam era faced a choice, whether or not to be drafted into the US Armed Forces. For Jim Fleming, and his friends Robert Cardinaux and Mark Peterson, the chose to become Conscientious Objectors. They worked together in alternative service as psychiatric aides.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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

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