50 episodes

”To the Best of Our Knowledge” is a Peabody award-winning 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. For more from the TTBOOK team, visit us at ttbook.org.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge TTBOOK

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”To the Best of Our Knowledge” is a Peabody award-winning 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. For more from the TTBOOK team, visit us at ttbook.org.

    Let's Celebrate Crying

    Let's Celebrate Crying

    We all feel better after a good cry. In fact, humans are the only animals who cry emotional tears. But what about people who don't cry? And have you ever wondered why a sad song or movie makes you cry?

    Original Air Date: August 05, 2023

    Interviews In This Hour:

    Hip-hop artist Dxtr Spits on teaching men to cry — The evolution and neuroscience of tears — What happens when an actor cries

    Guests:

    Dxtr Spits, Michael Trimble, Jen Plants

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    • 51 min
    Taking Pop Seriously

    Taking Pop Seriously

    Pop music is a gazillion-dollar industry that churns out hits and creates celebrities. It seems like the definition of ephemeral – today’s chart topper is gone tomorrow. But pop music is a powerful vehicle for bringing people together, and fans - from K-pop to the #FreeBritney movement — have something to teach us about community and hope.

    Original Air Date: March 26, 2022

    Interviews In This Hour:

    When we're disconnected, can we reconnect through K-pop? — From pop to punk: Shaping our musical identities — How a fan movement freed a pop star from her gilded cage

    Guests:

    Regina Kim, Kyla Nicole, Kelefa Sanneh, Samantha Stark

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    • 51 min
    One Nation Under God?

    One Nation Under God?

    In 2020, Donald Trump won 84 percent of the white evangelical vote.). Lately, he’s been leaning even more deeply into the rhetoric of Christian nationalists. Who are they, and what’s their role in the evangelical church? We talk with some Southern Baptists today, whose views may surprise you.

    Original Air Date: March 09, 2024

    Interviews In This Hour:

    The 'simmering violence' of Donald Trump and Christian nationalism — Examining the Role of Southern Baptist Women — Why One Black Pastor Left the Southern Baptists

    Guests:

    Jeff Sharlet, Beth Allison Barr, John Onwuchekwa

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    • 52 min
    Decolonizing the Mind

    Decolonizing the Mind

    Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cultures. To label them inferior. Music, arts, literature and of course language. In other words, it permeated everything. So how do you undo that? How do you unlearn what you’ve been forced to learn?

    In this hour, produced in partnership with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and Africa is a Country — we learn what it means to decolonize the mind.

    Original Air Date: March 20, 2021

    Interviews In This Hour:

    Reckon with the Past To Decolonize the Future — Reclaiming the Hidden History of Blackness — Never Write In The Language of the Colonizer

    Guests:

    Adom Getachew, Simon Gikandi, Ngugi wa Thiong’o

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    • 51 min
    In Your Dreams

    In Your Dreams

    What’s the last dream you remember having? Some of us dream every night. But we’re in too much of a hurry to remember our dreams or think about them the next day. Others of us are dream-deprived. What if we embrace our dreams — and our night selves —  as a way to understand ourselves better, to connect to each other, even to lead a better life?

    Original Air Date: February 24, 2024

    Interviews In This Hour:

    Why dream life matters — The lives we live inside our dreams — A dreaming mind, illustrated — Embracing your night self

    Guests:

    Rubin Naiman, Kelly Bulkeley, Roz Chast, Annabel Abbs-Streets

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    • 52 min
    Luminous: What Can Psychedelics Teach Us About Dying?

    Luminous: What Can Psychedelics Teach Us About Dying?

    In the first episode of "Luminous," our series about the philosophy and the future of psychedelics, how can psilocybin ease our fears about dying? And how can psychedelics change the way we approach the end of life?

    Original Air Date: April 08, 2023

    Interviews In This Hour:

    How a pioneering psychedelic researcher 'leaned in' to his terminal cancer diagnosis — Dying without fear: How psychedelics can ease the anxiety of terminal illness — The terror and the ecstasy of psychedelics

    Guests:

    Roland Griffiths, Lou Lukas, Anthony Bossis

    Editorial note: Roland Griffiths passed away on Oct. 16, 2023. The conversation with him in this episode took place in January 2023.

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    • 52 min

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