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<p>”To the Best of Our Knowledge” is a <a href="http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/to-the-best-of-our-knowledge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peabody award-winning</a> national public radio show that explores big ideas and beautiful questions. Deep interviews with philosophers, writers, artists, scientists, historians, and others help listeners find new sources of meaning, purpose, and wonder in daily life. Whether it’s about bees, poetry, skin, or psychedelics, every episode is an intimate, sound-rich journey into open-minded, open-hearted conversations. Warm and engaging, TTBOOK helps listeners feel less alone and more connected – to our common humanity and to the world we share.</p> <p>For more from the TTBOOK team, visit us at <a href="https://ttbook.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ttbook.org.</a></p>
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April 19, 2025
How does someone become an official saint? Meet Dorothy Day — journalist, radical activist, mother and lay minister to the poor who died in 1980 — who is being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church. Shannon Henry Kleiber walks in her footsteps through New York City, where she lived and worked, looking for miracles, talking with people whose lives were changed by her, and wondering how and why saints matter today. We are grateful for additional music for this show from <a href="http://www.tomchapin.com/">Tom Chapin</a>, Si Kahn and the Chapin Sisters. Thanks also to the Dorothy Day Guild, and The Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Marquette University Archives, which houses Dorothy Day’s papers and photos. Original Air Date: April 19, 2025 Interviews In This Hour: <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/search-miracles-favors-and-graces">In search of miracles, favors and graces</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/inside-agony-and-ecstasy-maryhouse">Inside the ‘agony and ecstasy’ of Maryhouse</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/we-are-all-called-be-saints">We are all ‘called to be saints’</a> Guests: <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/robert-ellsberg">Robert Ellsberg</a>, <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/martha-hennessy">Martha Hennessy</a>, <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/fr-james-martin">Fr. James Martin</a> Never want to miss an episode? <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/TTBOOK">Subscribe to the podcast.</a> Want to hear more from us, including extended interviews and favorites from the archive? <a href="https://ttbook.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=3cb4c021b28e511db7dc0b1ca&id=64562fd7d9">Subscribe to our newsletter.</a>
April 5, 2025
Some 500 years ago, the Scientific Revolution transformed civilization. It paved the way for new technology and commerce, but it also created a worldview that set humans above and apart from the rest of nature, leading to the abuse of the planet’s resources. Today, a new scientific paradigm is taking shape; an understanding that all life on Earth — from the tiniest bacteria to the largest ecosystem — is interconnected. Call it biocentrism or “Gaia 2.0.” Anne and Steve travel to the Island of Knowledge in Italy to meet a new generation of scientists and philosophers. Original Air Date: April 05, 2025 Interviews In This Hour: <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/why-human-imagination-both-our-greatest-gift-and-weapon">Why the human imagination is both our greatest gift and weapon</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/just-how-smart-robot-dog">Just how smart is a robot dog?</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/how-galileo-helped-create-modern-world">How Galileo helped create the modern world</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/new-science-planetary-intelligence">The new science of 'planetary intelligence'</a> Guests: <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/peter-tse">Peter Tse</a>, <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/marcelo-gleiser">Marcelo Gleiser</a>, <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/adam-frank-0">Adam Frank</a> Never want to miss an episode? <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/TTBOOK">Subscribe to the podcast.</a> Want to hear more from us, including extended interviews and favorites from the archive? <a href="https://ttbook.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=3cb4c021b28e511db7dc0b1ca&id=64562fd7d9">Subscribe to our newsletter.</a>
March 15, 2025
Music crosses boundaries between traditional and modern, local and global, personal and political. Take jazz — a musical form born out of forced migration and enslavement. We typically think it originated in New Orleans and then spread around the world. But today, we examine an alternate history of jazz — one that starts in Africa, then crisscrosses the planet, following the movements of people and empires -- from colonial powers to grassroots revolutionaries to contemporary artists throughout the diaspora. This history of jazz is like the music itself: fluid and improvisatory. In this hour, produced in partnership with the <a href="https://chcinetwork.org/">Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)</a> — a global consortium of 270 humanities centers and institutes — we hear how both African and African-American music have shaped the sound of the world today. Original Air Date: July 04, 2020 Interviews In This Hour: <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/how-meklit-hadero-reimagined-ethiopian-jazz">How Meklit Hadero Reimagined Ethiopian Jazz</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/so-you-say-you-want-revolution">So You Say You Want A Revolution </a>— <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/reclaiming-hidden-history-south-african-jazz">Reclaiming the Hidden History of South African Jazz</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/we-are-all-african-when-we-listen">'We Are All African When We Listen'</a> Guests: <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/meklit-hadero">Meklit Hadero</a>, <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/valmont-layne">Valmont Layne</a>, <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/gwen-ansell">Gwen Ansell</a>, <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/ron-radano">Ron Radano</a> Further Reading: <a href="https://chcinetwork.org/ideas/series/ideas-from-africa">CHCI Ideas from Africa Hub</a> Never want to miss an episode? <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/TTBOOK">Subscribe to the podcast.</a> Want to hear more from us, including extended interviews and favorites from the archive? <a href="https://ttbook.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=3cb4c021b28e511db7dc0b1ca&id=64562fd7d9">Subscribe to our newsletter.</a>
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