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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Would you like to sharpen your memory?  Science writer Joshua Foer tells you how to build an elaborate memory palace.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer and activist Yasmin Nair's Dangerous Idea? Writers should always 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Lada Adamic is one of a host of data scientists working at facebook. Anne Strainchamps wanted to know what all those sociologists are up to.

Check out Facebook's social science website.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses his six-volume autobiographical novel, "My Struggle."

You could also listen to an extended interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Marti Leimbach is an autism activist and successful novelist. She talks about her own experiences trying to get help for her autistic son.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leonard Zwilling tells Jim Fleming about boxing’s impact on the English language.  It’s yielded such words and phrases as fan, throw in the towel, and up to scratch.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball tell Steve Paulson what makes a lyric work and that many of the great songs came from Broadway and Hollywood musicals.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joan Dye Gussow tells Anne Strainchamps what she eats, and why people should care about the political and environmental implications of their food choices.

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