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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani talks about her electronic music and sound work.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Plenty of men are obsessed with body image, too.  Eric Chaline traces the cult of the male body beautiful back to ancient Greece, in "The Temple of Perfection" -- his new history of the gym.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Scott Turow has made a career writing hugely successful legal thrillers, but then he turned to a World War II novel.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jill Fredston has rowed more than 20,000 miles of Arctic water, along the coastlines of Alaska and Greenland and alongside whales and polar bears.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The 1967 Ice Bowl is one of football's legendary showdowns, when the wind chill dipped to 50 below zero.  Commentator Bill Povletich remembers this historic game.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Simon Critchley is the author of "The Book of Dead Philosophers," a quirky account of how various philosophers thought about death and died themselves.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Brown was an abolitionist who from the beginning was committed to the abolition of slavery and called for ending it through armed insurrection.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Samuel R. Delany has been described as "American science fiction's most consistently brilliant and inventive writer."  Delany's non-fiction includes the essay collection, "The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction."  He talked to Steve Paulson about his love of language.

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