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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni talks about her traditional Indian childhood and the Bengali dream-tellers she met while researching "Queen of Dreams."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Cameron Sinclair was 23 when he founded Architecture for Humanity, a non-profit charity that puts architects and designers to work on disaster relief.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We've turned our hearts over to software; 30 million Americans have online dating profiles. About one-fifth of all new relationships in North America start with people meeting online. 

So far, the algorithms don't seem to know much more than we do, about what we're looking for.

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Craig Harline tells Anne Strainchamps how Sunday has evolved over the past several centuries.

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Dr. Ted Kaptchuk tells Steve Paulson about the work of some Danish researchers who have concluded that “the Placebo effect” is a myth.

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Comic novelist David Lodge takes on the old battle between science and the humanities in his latest book, “Thinks.”

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Elizabeth Lunbeck’s Dangerous Idea is narcissism is good.

 

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When a loved one dies, most of us turn to a professional, someone like Caitlin Doughty. She's a licensed mortician, death activist, and creator of the popular webseries "Ask A Mortician". In this interview, she talks about what happens when a body is prepared for burial.

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