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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Sam Kriss's Dangerous Idea? The "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" as satire.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dean King tells Jim Fleming about the ordeal of Captain James Riley and his crew. They lost their ship and were enslaved by desert nomads for months.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Madison, Wisconsin, which recently saw a new type of leaderless social media revolution in full bloom.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Levitin runs McGill University's Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mishy Harman recommends "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amos Oz.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Maybe the silver lining to any break-up is the soundtrack. You get the sad songs and the sorry songs. When you're tired of tears on your pillow and ready to revive, there are the angry break-up songs.

In this EXTENDED interview with producer Sara Nics, Jason Saldanha and Robin Linn of WBEZ's Sound Opinions talk blame, revenge and moving on.

WARNING: In this extended version, there is profanity in some of the lyrics.

Want to see the full list of suggested break-up song? Here it is.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Clio Cresswell tells Steve Paulson that out of 100 possible partners, you’re mathematically likely to make the right choice if you pick the most attractive person who’s left after 37 dates.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Philosopher David Chalmers is famous for outlining the "hard problem of consciousness."  In this EXTENDED INTERVIEW, he says the materialist framework of science will never be able to explain subjective experience - our thoughts and feelings, the expereince of joy or sorrow, self-awareness. 

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