To The Best Of Our Knowledge
Hosted by Steve · Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.6from 1,246 ratings
- 534
- Episodes
- 77
- Transcribed
- 1,246
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
- 264K
- YouTube views
About To The Best Of Our Knowledge
Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are now archived in the Library of Congress (https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/ttbook). Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality. The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold. About the hosts Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of Atoms and Eden (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atoms-and-eden-9780199743162?cc=us&lang=en&). Learn more at wondercabinetproductions.com (http://wondercabinetproductions.com).
- Publisher
- Wonder Cabinet Productions
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Mar 2014
- Latest episode
- 7 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
77 of 534 episodes have a transcript.
7 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hannah Fries on the Language of Forests and 'A Wild Ecology of Wonder'
31 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Finding Wonder in Dying with Roshi Joan Halifax
24 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Maria Popova on 20 Years of 'The Marginalian'
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Hannah Fries on the Language of Forests and 'A Wild Ecology of Wonder'
Published 7 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] With the chlorophyll inside of them, they could create their own energy through photosynthesis. By producing oxygen, they had already begun to change the atmosphere of the planet. Then, about one billion years ago, a eukaryotic cell with a nucleus came along and engulfed some of these ancient little bacteria. […]
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- Hannah Fries
- Roshi Joan Halifax
- Maria Popova
- Daniel Mason
- Melanie Challenger
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 263,610
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 1,066 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 180 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100
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- Quality
- 94
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 99
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