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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Myers tells Jim Fleming humans are terrible at predicting what will make them happy and seem to be much more resilient than they give themselves credit for.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin straddles avant-garde and mainstream film, and he’s obsessed with the lost masterpieces from cinema’s history. In this extended interview, Maddin tells Steve Paulson he’s haunted by the ghosts of early cinema.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charles Monroe-Kane reports on Brian Dunn, who “finds” other people’s photographs and then keeps them. Some of the found photos are on our Web site. 

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

David Ferris is the director of the Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project. He tells Anne Strainchamps the project began as a conceptual art project that provided gainful employment to the animals put out of work by the collapse of Thailand's timber industry.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joshua Ferris recommends James Salter's "Dusk and Other Stories."

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

What is it exactly that we love about the movies? For Madelon Sprengnether, going to the movies prompted a journey of self discovery and helped her cope with the sudden death of her father. It all started with a Bengali film called "Pather Panchali."

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