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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Faith Adiele flunked out of Harvard and went to Thailand to study languages. There, she became the first ordained Black Buddhist Nun.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Edmund White recommends Henry Green's 1950 novel, "Nothing."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Architect Charles Jencks and his late wife started a private garden to explore scientific concepts through landscape art. Jencks published a book of photographs of The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, which inspired composer Michael Gandolfi to create a piece further exploring the same ideas.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Brian Jones is an actor portraying Karl Marx in "Marx in Soho."  Jones tells Judith Strasser some of the details about Marx that helped him nail the character.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There are lots of ways we identify ourselves – where we come from, our race, our religion… but perhaps nothing shapes our identity more than whether we’re a man or a woman. But even that can get really complicated.  Independent producer Aubrey Ralph explains.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist and philosopher, and author of "Becoming Animal."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

This six minute short film sets a typical frat house scene with heightened visual intensity: beer pong, drunk girls, guys with their shirts off doing shots, hazing rituals, fights. The twist is that the guy at the center of the film is clearly attracted to one of his frat brothers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Hans Ulrich Obrist's dangerous idea is to create a museum for projects that haven't been completed—he calls it "A Palace of Unbuilt Roads."

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