To The Best Of Our Knowledge

To The Best Of Our Knowledge


Latest Episodes

Listening to Whales
August 24, 2024

What can we learn from whales and whales from us? Technology like AI is fueling new scientific breakthroughs in whale communication that can help us better understand the natural world. And, theres

Going for Broke: Can Work Be Love?
August 17, 2024

In this final part of our series, were talking about work about the right to meaningful work, the search for jobs that pay enough to live, and what happens to people who look for work while also ha

Going for Broke: Making Up Our Minds
August 10, 2024

Post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges can push people into poverty. Meanwhile, the experience of financial desperation can also create even more trauma, even more suffering

Going for Broke: Change of Address
August 03, 2024

In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke" all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic human right. But in America, it can be hard to come b

Love in the Time of Extinction
July 27, 2024

It can be hard to enjoy the natural world these days without anxiety. You notice a butterfly on a flower and wonder why you dont see more. Hows the monarch population doing this year? And shouldnt

Deep Time: The Cosmos and Us
July 20, 2024

Our lives are so rushed, so busy. Always on the clock. Counting the hours, minutes, seconds. Have you ever stopped to wonder: what are you counting? What is this thing, thats all around us, invisible

What is tribal sovereignty?
July 13, 2024

Most Americans take their sovereignty for granted - the nations right to make its own laws and govern its own people. The same rights we recognize in other sovereign nations, with one glaring excepti

Luminous: Can psychedelics be decolonized?
July 06, 2024

Its easy to get caught up in the hype about how psychedelics might revolutionize the treatment of mental illness. But there are also lots of ethical concerns. And probably none are so troubling as th

Against Capitalism
June 29, 2024

Radical politics and radical movements are on the rise everywhere. Against racial violence, and climate change; against gender inequality, corporate greed, low wages, oil pipelines, opioids. Maybe at

The Spirit of Jim Thorpe
June 22, 2024

Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known a legend in the NFL, MLB, NCAA, and in the Olympics. Today he is being celebrated by a new generation of Native Americans.