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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Leyner talks to Jim Fleming about his mind-bending, synapse-shattering new novel, "The Sugar Frosted Nutsack."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Is mathematics what's most real in the universe?  MIT physicist Max Tegmark thinks so, and he says it's likely we live in one of many parallel universes.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paco Underhill tells Jim Fleming what malls do to get you to buy things.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jeanne Safer and Richard Brookhiser would seem like an unlikely couple. She's a lifelong liberal, while he's a senior editor for the conservative National Review, and yet the two have been happily married for more than 35 years. They shared the secrets of a lasting marriage across party lines.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Dirda tells Anne Strainchamps that modern readers of Beowulf owe a great deal to J.R.R. Tolkien.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Janice VanCleave tells Jim Fleming some of the experiments from the "Weather" volume, including how to build a cloud, and why the sky looks blue.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Krugman won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics and teaches at Princeton. His latest book is "The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 Reverend Jamie Coots was a snake handler and Pentecostal preacher in Middlesboro, Kentucky.   He died this past Saturday, when the rattlesnake he was handling during a church service bit him.

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