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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Susan Corso is the author of “God’s Dictionary: Divine Definitions for Everyday Enlightenment.” She tells Jim Fleming about spiritual etymology and how she interprets the root meanings of words to come up with her definitions.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Oxford English Dictionary was created in 1857, and was expected to be finished within ten years. The first edition was finally completed 71 years later.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Is science really open to every good idea?  Controversial biologist Rupert Sheldrake says modern science is mired in various dogmas - boundaries you're not supposed to cross, at least if you value your job and your reputation.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For the Aboriginal people of Australia, the concept of "The Dreaming" means an existence with no linear time.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ziauddin Sardar responds to the question "is there really a clash of civilizations?"

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison remembers her childhood in Ohio.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Scientists are on the cusp of developing new technologies that could radically change how we’re born and how we die. But just because we can do it, should we? For lots of people, it’s just plain wrong for humans to play God.

But Oxford University bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a different view. He says we have a moral obligation to use new technology to create the best possible children.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sarah Bakewell is the author of “How to Live” an unorthodox biography of the great French philosopher and essayist Montaigne.

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