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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Can meditating for 10 days change your life? It has for dozens of inmates at a maximum security prison in Alabama who signed up for a grueling, intensive course of Vapassana meditation. Jenny Phillips tells the story in her documentary film "The Dhamma Brothers."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Can you actually see creativity in the brain? It turns out you can if you put a living, breathing human being inside a brain scan. IN this EXTENDED interview, neuroscientist Rex Jung describes his innovative research on the science of creativity.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Professor of Christian philosophy Nancey Murphy tells Steve Paulson Christians would be better off without the soul.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What do the three Abrahamic religions have in common about the concept of heaven?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joan Wylie Hall, author of “Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction,” talks with Steve Paulson...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Americans spend billions of dollars a year on over-the-counter pain relievers. In fact, all over the world, easing pain is big business. And Aspirin’s one of the top sellers.  Why? Charles Mann, author of “The Aspirin Wars”, tells Steve Paulson what happened when a German company called Bayer came to America:

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Nicholas Harberd spent a year observing a thalecress in a country churchyard. He kept a diary.

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Luke Rhinehart's novel, “The Dice Man", involves a psychiatrist who opens his life to new possibilities by basing his actions on a throw of the diced.

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