To the Best of Our Knowledge

Series produced by Wisconsin Public Radio

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To the Best of Our Knowledge is a radio show about big ideas that fuel deep insights into our world through interviews with the world's luminaries, from experts to cultural icons. Each show revolves around a theme where we explore these ideas and the people who consider them.

TTBOOK is a nationally-syndicated, Peabody award-winning radio show where long-form interviews help fuel deep insights into our world. We have conversations with novelists and poets, scientists and software engineers, journalists and historians, filmmakers and philosophers, artists and activists—anyone with a big idea and a passion to have a creative and engaging conversation about it.

We consider ideas big and small, conventional and dangerous, and marshal them into shows centered around a theme. A show's theme sometimes centers on a big question, other times it will zero in on the small things that give us pause. A good theme is a conversation starter: is the Internet making us stupid? Can a computer truly be creative? Are humans innately good? What’s the best road trip you ever took?

Once we pick the theme, we dig in with interviews that explore the culture, the debate, the stories, the science and the actual sound of it all. And hopefully, when we’re done, we’ve animated the questions along with the answers, opening both our own minds and yours.

TTBOOK is available by annual carriage fee. Please contact Sean Nesbitt at sean.nesbitt@prx.org for more information. Hide full description

TTBOOK is a nationally-syndicated, Peabody award-winning radio show where long-form interviews help fuel deep insights into our world. We have conversations with novelists and poets, scientists and software engineers, journalists and historians, filmmakers and philosophers, artists and activists—anyone with a big idea and a passion to have a creative and engaging conversation about it.We consider ideas big and small, conventional and dangerous, and marshal them into shows centered around a theme. A show's theme sometimes centers on a big question, other times it will zero in on the small things that give us pause. A good theme is a conversation starter: is the Internet making us stupid? Can a computer truly be creative? Are humans innately good? What’s the best road trip you ever... Show full description


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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Cosmos And Us" - Our lives are so rushed, always on the clock. Counting the minutes and seconds. In the latest episode of...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "What Is Tribal Sovereignty?" - Americans often celebrate something most of us take for granted – national sovereignty. Our nation’s righ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Luminous: Can Psychedelics Be Decolonized?" - Psychedelics are a multi-billion dollar industry. But many come from plant medicines first...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:59
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HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "The Spirit Of Jim Thorpe" - Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. A Native American hero who broke recor...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "In Journalism We Trust" - The most basic job in journalism is to report the truth. Why is that so complicated? This hour, we'll explore ...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
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HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Avian obsessions" - It’s summer and the birds are singing. Building nests, eating worms. Watching them makes a lot of people happy – but...

  • Added: May 31, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
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HOUR ONE: "Tasting the past" - What food reminds you of a certain time - or maybe a particular person - in your life? This hour, we’ll meet kitchen...

  • Added: May 24, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Being body conscious" - When you look at your body in the mirror, do you love what you see? Do you pick out the things you don’t like? M...

  • Added: May 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "For the love of moms" - If it weren't for them, there would be nobody on the planet, because they literally gave us the world. This hour...

  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Reframing the portrait" - Have you ever stood in front of a portrait at a museum and wondered what was that person thinking? Portraits h...

  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
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HOUR ONE: "Giving up" - Our lives are full of lists and responsibilities. Things to do, things to be. Maybe it's time to let go and give something ...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:59
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth keeps time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Luminous: Your brain on 'shrooms" - More and more scientists believe psychedelics can open a window into how our minds work. And for som...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
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HOUR ONE: "Total eclipse and other wonders" - Millions of people are traveling to see the total solar eclipse. Meanwhile, the exact nature of the u...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:02
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HOUR ONE: "Does AI dream?" - Say you're an artist and you want to paint something you can't see. What if AI can? Are you dreaming together? HOUR ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Let's Celebrate Crying" - When was the last time you cried in front of someone? It’s human to feel grief and pain, but most of us learne...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01