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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Genesis P-Orridge is a conceptual artist who calls himself a cultural engineer. He was born male but is re-inventing himself as a "pandrogyne," or hermaphrodite by choice.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Although people have long been curious about the experience of death, the science of the question is still relatively young.

Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel is one of the leading near death experience researchers. He says all this time studying death has got him curious about his own end. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Harvey Shapiro is the editor of a collection called “Poets of World War II.” He was a gunner himself during the war.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Film-maker George Ratliff took a crew to Hell House - a Halloween haunted house produced by the Trinity Assembly of God Church in Crawford, Texas. The church’s goal is to scare teenagers away from the behavior they believe leads to eternal damnation.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Gerard Jones tells Steve Paulson, a dad himself, that children need to be able to “destroy” the things that scare them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Gus Russo tells Jim Fleming that organized crime has attempted to influence the presidential election on several occasions and finds it significant that Frank Sinatra acted as a gangster’s daughter’s prom date.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A deck of "Oblique Strategies" cards has been used by artists to create music and write book.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"Kite Runner" author Khaled Hosseini's got a new book out. "And the Mountains Echoed" is a tale of love that spans the globe, from Afghanistan to America to Greece. In this UNCUT interview he talks about the book and the nations through which its tale weaves.

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