To The Best Of Our Knowledge
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To The Best Of Our Knowledge is a nationally-syndicated, Peabody award-winning public radio show that dives headlong into the deeper end of ideas. We have conversations with novelists and poets, scientists and software engineers, journalists and historians, filmmakers and philosophers, artists and activists — people with big ideas and a passion to share them. For more from the TTBOOK team, visit us at ttbook.org.

Mysteries of Migration

If you had to travel 500 miles across country, on foot, with no map, no GPS, without talking to anyone — to a destination you've never seen, could you...
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Jazz Migrations

Music crosses boundaries between traditional and modern, local and global, personal and political. Take jazz — a musical form born out of forced migra...
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Finding Meaning in Desperate Times

We’ve all been changed by the experience of living through a pandemic. We figured out how to sanitize groceries, mute ourselves on Zoom and keep from ...
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The Secret Language of Trees

Using a complex network of chemical signals, trees talk to each other and form alliances with fellow trees, even other species. In fact, whole forests...
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Is War Ever Worth It?

For all the commentary, the sorrow and rage, all the second-guessing about everything that followed, it’s still hard to fathom what happened on 9/11. ...
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Traveling By Book

Before the time of commercial flights and road trips, we traveled to far off places without taking a single step. All you had to do was open a book. F...
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Our Virtual Reality

Not everyone has a nice, big yard to stretch out in while sheltering in place from COVID-19. But maybe you don't need one. People are using virtual sp...
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Plants As Persons

Over the past decade, plant scientists have quietly transformed the way we think of trees, forests and plants. They discovered that trees communicate ...
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Writing the Climate Change Story

One of the toughest things about trying to understand climate change – arguably the most important story of our time - is wrapping our minds around it...
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