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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

We explore the fine art of creative collaboration and start with the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

According to John Leland, the hipster is an outsider who crosses boundaries and challenges the mainstream. He also talks about the overlap between being hip and using drugs.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

MP3 formatting compresses audio so that the file becomes 75 to 95 percent smaller. But what are we missing?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For millennia the Hazara people have been telling folk tales. Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman have collected them in a book called “The Honey Thief.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Nelson hikes through the Alaskan wilderness recording sounds you can't hear anywhere else, and he plays excerpts during this conversation with Anne Strainchamps.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Beatty recommends a novel by German-Jewish Holocaust survivor Edgar Hilsenrath.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nicholas Christopher collected myths and legends for years to write his novel, "The Bestiary."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Larry Watson tells a story about beauty, art, obsession and betrayal in his novel “Orchard.”

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