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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A forest is an amazing repository of both knowledge and wisdom.  Ecologist Suzanne Simard takes Anne Strainchamps on a walking tour of a forest to point out the remarkable web of life both above and below the ground.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stefan Kanfer tells Jim Fleming that Groucho Marx flaunted authority his whole life, and that the price of his comedic genius was a tormented private life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tom Lutz wrote "Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America." He tells Steve Paulson it was his way of dealing with his teen-age son, who never left the couch.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anne Strainchamps sat down with the great Turkish writer Elif Shafak. Her latest novel, “The Architect’s Apprentice,” is an epic tale set in the height of the Ottoman Empire. It has bloodshed. It was palace intrigue. It has romance. And, yes, it has architecture.

Shafak’s tale centers around a 16th century mosque architect named Mimar Sinan. Though a character in her novel, Sinan was also a real person – considered to be the greatest architect in the Islamic World.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Scott Topper provides a commentary on the power of films on the minds of film-goers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jazz pianist and cognitive scientist Vijay Iyer just won a MacArthur "genius" award.  He's also landed a job at Harvard teaching music.  He tells Anne Strainchamps how he incorporates science into his music.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rather than making our stories better - or attempting to stop telling them altogether - Jonathan Harris is helping people combine their stories in a bid to unveil the "ecstatic truth" of human life. Anne Strainchamps asked Harris about his storytelling platform, Cowbird.

Listen to the UNCUT interview here.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Renowned British paleontologist Simon Conway Morris believes human-like intelligence was the inevitable outcome of the appearance of life on earth.

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