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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Birute Galdikas talks about her almost other-worldly experience of living with orangutans in Borneo.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A few maverick physicists in the 1970s revived interest in quantum physics by exploring some of the deepest philosophical questions about reality.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a famous critic of Islam. She talks with Steve Paulson about why she believes Islam is inherently incompatible with Western values.

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

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

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

An algorithm might not be able to spit out a chart-topping song —at least not yet—but it might be able to help you write a best-selling novel.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Memory researcher Daniel Schacter tells Steve Paulson that you can be confident of your memory and still wrong, and explains other tricks our memories play on us.  

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