PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Each week To the Best of Our Knowledge delivers in-depth interviews with nationally and internationally-known guests whose passion for new ideas will challenge and engage. Hosted by Jim Fleming, this interview magazine is thoughtful and penetrating, and features fascinating topics and guests
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Death: The Wake
How do we mark death and celebrate lost lives around ...
How do we mark death and celebrate lost lives around the globe? In this hour, we hear stories from inside the funeral industry, and learn about burial and mourning rituals throughout history. Tending to the Body; Ask a Mortician; Ghanaian Coffins are a Fa
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Our National Parks
National Parks rock! National Parks: The Greatest American Invention; No ...
National Parks rock! National Parks: The Greatest American Invention; No More National Parks!; Cheryl Strayed on her memoir "Wild"; El Capitan Daredevils – The story of the few who have climbed the 3000 foot granite wall of Yosemite National Park.; Listen
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Death: The Last Moment
In this hour, we explore the medical, spiritual and psychological ...
In this hour, we explore the medical, spiritual and psychological mysteries of the moment of death. A Buddhist chaplain talks about preparing - now - to meet our final moments mindfully. And, as resuscitation science makes it ever-more possible for u
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Reinventing Fiction
Are you tired of the old way of fiction? Are ...
Are you tired of the old way of fiction? Are Japanese cell phone novels just not doing it for you any more? Fear not. Today, we meet writers who are blowing up the novel by inventing new forms of fiction. Blurring The Lines Between Fiction And Reality; Ka
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Death: Exit Plan
We live much longer than we used to, thanks to ...
We live much longer than we used to, thanks to medical advances, but what are the emotional and financial costs of extending life? Some doctors don't know how to talk with their patients about preparing for death, so there's now a push to have frank
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Remembering David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace changed the landscape of American writing. His novels ...
David Foster Wallace changed the landscape of American writing. His novels dissect our media-saturated culture in unflinching detail. And his essays are passed around to friends with the words, “You have to read this.” He became a literary
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Death: The Reckoning
From death cafes and death dinners, to innovative schools that ...
From death cafes and death dinners, to innovative schools that now talk openly about death with their students, there's a movement afoot to change how we talk about the end of life. In this hour, how do we reckon with our own death and the deaths of our l
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Summer Music Festivals
Ah, summer music festivals... beer tents, starry nights, a great ...
Ah, summer music festivals... beer tents, starry nights, a great lineup of bands. And tens of thousands of strangers. The festival-ization of American music has more of us shelling out for expensive tickets to multi-day, multi-stage festivals. Are they wo
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Mayors (update)
What if Mayors Rules the World If Mayors Ruled the ...
What if Mayors Rules the World If Mayors Ruled the World; Participatory Budgeting; SONIC SIDEBAR: Mayor Dave; The Mayor of Reykjavik; A DANGEROUS IDEA!; Keija Parssinen on her novel "The Unraveling of Mercy Louis".
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The Art of Reading
It used to be easy to get lost in a ...
It used to be easy to get lost in a good book, but now lots of people say reading is boring. Scientists say all that skimming and surfing on electronic screens is actually rewiring our brains. So we examine the new science of reading, and meet celebrated
