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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Some of us think of dance as something best left to the professionals, people with years of training and technique. But when Sally Gross started dancing, she realized that she'd never master ballet or modern dance. So she made a whole new kind of dance...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

By now, it's almost commonplace to worry that the amount of time you spend on the Internet is actually rewiring your brain. But the first person to really put the issue on the cultural map was the writer Nicholas Carr -- in a book that's become a contemporary classic: "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Self-described former jihadist Mubin Shaikh recounts his journey into, and out of, extremism.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

National Parks are important to America. And not just for the environment. But for the well-being of those who visit.  Yet a large portion of the US popular has never set foot in a National Park. Especially African Americans. Independent producer James Mills wanted to know why. And he went all the way back to the Buffalo Soldiers, exploring what he calls "The Adventure Gap
 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anne Strainchamps asks Columbia College philosopher Stephen Asma what his colleagues make of the soul these days.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thomas Campanella tells Jim Fleming the Elm tree once spread its arching branches over trees from one end of the country to the other, but in the end it was loved to death.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Scott Sandage tells Anne Strainchamps that the very meaning of failure has changed in American society over 200 years.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Point of attack. Defensive Line. Football and war have a lot in common. Former foreign policy advisor to President Clinton, Michael Mandelbaum, talks conflict and the game.

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