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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mindless Eating author and Ithaca native, Brian Wansink, cleans his plate on stage with Michael.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The best-selling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak was put on trial ten years ago for "insulting Turkishness". She says the political climate in Turkey is more polarized than ever today, and even riskier for writers. She also believes fiction can help heal divided cultures.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Carolyn Wyman talks about the history of Wonder Bread. It really does seem to be the greatest thing since sliced bread.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Erin McKean talks with Anne Strainchamps about the pleasures of strange words like “squintefego” and “limiculous.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Benjamin Skinner tells the story of how he infiltrated slave markets on five continents from slave quarries in India to child markets in Haiti and says that in Manhattan, you're five hours away from negotiating the sale of another human being in broad daylight.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Cheng-Sim Lim knows her kung—fu movies. She’s the curator of “Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film” at UCLA’S Film and Television archive

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Veronica Rueckert took a crash course from DJ Puzzle (Jason Donnelly) and talked to Stephen Weber.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Legal scholar Cass Sunstein believes humans are innately irrational.

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