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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Etgar Keret tells Anne Strainchamps that he is the child of Holocaust survivors and that his work reflects life in Israel as it really is today. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When it comes to loyalty, dogs win. Now, new evidence suggests dogs and early humans formed an alliance 36,000 years ago.  Together, they drove Neanderthals to extinction, then invaded and conquered the rest of the planet. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Charles Eisenstein's Dangerous Idea?  Questioning our core beliefs can change our world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Boz Temple-Morris, the co-founder and Marketing Director of the Enlightened Tobacco Company,  tells Steve Paulson the company was all about truth in advertising.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

It’s 2055, a regular weekday morning… Where do you wake up? With a booming population and more people moving into urban areas, chances are you’d be living in a city. But what might that city look like? Mitchell Joaquim is an architect, and one of the founders of the innovative design group, TerreForm1.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Earl Scruggs talks with Steve Paulson about his long history in blue grass and country music.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Psychologists John and Julie Gottman are famous for being able to predict with 94% accuracy whether a couple will break up, stay together unhappily, or stay together happily. In their Love Lab, they've identified hidden patterns of behavior that can strengthen or weaken relationships. If we'd known the secret to a good marriage was non-linear differential equations, we might have paid more attention in math class.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Talking about race is fraught these days, so it took guts for Paul Beatty to write his novel "The Sellout." It's a satire about a young black man who winds up on trial at the Supreme Court. And along the way, he enslaves an old friend and re-segregates the local high school.

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