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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Theoretical physicist Marco Gleiser's Dangerous Idea?  We matter.

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Frans de Waal talks with Jim Fleming about chimps, who can be aggressive and violent, and bonobos, who are mama's boys and like sex.

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British comedian Dave Gorman decided to meet as many of the people who share his name as possible.  His hobby turned into a hit one-man stage show and a book called “Are You Dave Gorman?”

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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.

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David Stockman. Stockman? Uhm, Stockman? Oh yeah, President Reagan’s budget director. One of the architects of supply-side economics. Well, he’s back in the limelight all these years later with his best-selling book “The Great Deformation”.

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David Hancocks Jim Fleming why zoos should cater to the needs of their animals, not their visitors and that zoos need to evolve into institutions concerned with the long term survival of animals and their habitats.

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Austin Kleon talks about his book, "Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative."

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

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