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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Agriculture already shapes the globe. With food insecurity growing around the globe, the unpredictabilities of climate change and population growth booming... what will we eat in the future? 

Jonathan Foley heads the Global Landscape Initiative at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment. 

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Cultural scientist Alana Conner believes we all navigate different identities, and not just along racial or ethnic lines. She finds many cultural conflicts boil down to two competing types of selves.

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Arika Okrent is a linguist and the author of "In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Logian Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language."

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Erik Davis, a fifth generation Californian, tells Jim Fleming that geographically and culturally, his state supports diversity and exploration.

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Alastair Bonnett's Dangerous Idea? Let's change our cities to promote urban biodiversity.

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Human and animal history is so intertwined it's hard to imagine one species without the other.

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Daphne Merkin responds to Hilary Clinton as a cultural symbol and public personality.

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David Gessner wants to change the way people write about nature.  Instead of the traditional stories about wild animals in pristine landscapes, he calls for a style of nature writing that's messy, even raucous.

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