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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For centuries religions set moral boundaries. In his new book “The Moral Landscape” prominent atheist Sam Harris argues that science should set them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was the rare book that changed how we think.  On its 50th anniversary, historian of science Tom Broman talks about Kuhn's legacy and we hear excerpts from Kuhn's book.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There's an entire sector of the economy run by people who are working diligently to get inside your head and harvest your attention? Does that creep you out?  They're called the Attention Merchants. And their business model consists of attracting your attention and then reselling it for profit. They're ad-based TV channels, clickbait producers and the big social media producers. Law professor Tim Wu is the author of "The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads." 

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What are you making? In San Francisco, two radio producers are collecting stories in a project called “The Making Of...” 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The demographics of the United States are changing: how does the latest wave of immigration fit into the historical pattern?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Sean Wilentz tells Jim Fleming the birth of Dylan’s music is deeply bound up in the politics of the time.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Oxford English Dictionary was created in 1857, and was expected to be finished within ten years. The first edition was finally completed 71 years later.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tia Fuller's life is steeped in jazz.  She's a saxophone player who composes, teaches, and has several albums under her belt.  If that's not enough, she also spent five years touring the world with Beyonce's all-woman R & B band.  Her new album is called "Angelic Warrior."

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