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To The Best of Our Knowledge
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 18 พ.ย. 2016
”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.
TTBOOK is produced in Madison, Wisconsin, at Wisconsin Public Radio, and is part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
TTBOOK is produced in Madison, Wisconsin, at Wisconsin Public Radio, and is part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Retreat from the Day-to-Day Life
Sometimes the world is just too much. Too much awful news, too many things to worry about, too much to do. When you can’t take another headline, can’t handle another email, when you know inside you need something deeper than a vacation-maybe it’s time for a retreat.
Original Air Date: January 18, 2025
Guests:
Pico Iyer, Monica Gagliano
www.ttbook.org/show/retreat-day-day-life
Original Air Date: January 18, 2025
Guests:
Pico Iyer, Monica Gagliano
www.ttbook.org/show/retreat-day-day-life
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Deep Time: Reclaim the Night
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The longest nights of the year are here, but how many of us will see them? The global spread of light pollution is making it harder to experience dark skies and natural darkness. Learning how to reconnect with the planet’s ancient nocturnal rhythms can be profoundly restorative. Nature writers and darkness activists tell us what we’re missing. Deep Time is a series all about the natural ecologi...
Plant Intelligence
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Have you ever wondered how plants find enough light and water? How they ward off attacks from predators? It turns out they’re a lot smarter than you realize. Some plants can hear a caterpillar munching on its leaves and then send out distress signals to activate their immune system. Certain flowers can trick bees into pollinating them, even when there’s no pollen. Plants also have memories. And...
Luminous: Do psychedelics reveal a deeper dimension of reality?
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There’s a huge question swirling around the really big psychedelic experiences. Are these mind-blowing trips just hallucinations - the brain shot full of chemicals, playing tricks on you - or do they crack open some transpersonaldimension of consciousness? Most scholars who study psychedelics won’t go anywhere near this question, and yet it’s central to how you interpret these experiences. If y...
The Sum of Our Data
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Every click on your computer, every swipe on your smartphone, leaves a data trail. Information about who you are, what you do, who you love, the state of your mind and body… so much data about you, expanding day by day in the digital clouds. The question is-do you care? Would owning your data, or having more digital privacy, make life better? And what happens to all that data when you die? Orig...
Playing with Words
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Playing with Words Sometime in the last couple of years, America’s collective morning routine shifted. We used to start the day with coffee. Now it’s coffee and Wordle. Or Spelling Bee. Or both, plus the crossword. We’re living in a golden age of word games - which is fun, and one way to get just a tiny bit of relief when the world feels out of control. Original Air Date: November 09, 2024 Gues...
Everyday Magic
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What would it be like to live in a world where magic is still alive? Not weird, not woo-woo, just ordinary. 400 years ago, consulting a magician in downtown London was as unremarkable as calling a plumber today. Even now, there are places where magic never died - like Iceland, where 54 percent of the population believes in elves, or thinks they might exist. Original Air Date: October 12, 2024 G...
Beyond Death
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Most of us have no idea what will happen when we die. But some do-people who actually started the process of dying and then came back with remarkable stories-like meeting dead relatives. Science is not only extending the lives of patients who’ve been declared clinically dead; it’s also beginning to tell us what happens in near-death experiences. Original Air Date: September 21, 2024 Guests: Seb...
Listening to Whales
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Listening to Whales 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, there’s an international effort to give whales a voice by granting them personhood. Special thanks to Ocean Alliance and whale.org for some of the whale recordings heard on this episod...
Love in the Time of Extinction
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Love in the Time of Extinction It can be hard to enjoy the natural world these days without anxiety. You notice a butterfly on a flower and wonder why you don’t see more. How’s the monarch population doing this year? And shouldn’t there be more bees? The challenge is to live in this time of climate change - but still find joy and refuge in it. Original Air Date: July 27, 2024 Guests: Heather Sw...
Ecologies of love: Heather Swan’s stories of insects and the web of life
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Heather Swan teaches environmental literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her students are 18 and 20-year-olds. And one day, after reading to them a famous Mary Oliver poem, she realized just how scared her students are really are.
Luminous: Erik Davis on LSD, the psychedelic underground and visionary experience
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Erik Davis’ “Blotter” is really three books in one: It’s about the way LSD tabs were embedded in blotter paper so they wouldn’t be detected by the authorities; it’s also a deep dive into the psychedelic underground; and finally, it’s an art book - gorgeously illustrated, with lots of very trippy blotter art. Steve talks with Erik about the wildness of psychedelic experiences and whether they re...
What is tribal sovereignty?
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Most Americans take their sovereignty for granted - the nation’s right to make its own laws and govern its own people. The same rights we recognize in other sovereign nations, with one glaring exception - the Native nations and tribes who were here first. For Native Americans, sovereignty is not some abstract idea. It’s an ongoing, daily struggle. Original Air Date: July 13, 2024 Guests: Mary M...
Luminous: Did the ancient Greeks use drugs to find God?
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Luminous: Did the ancient Greeks use drugs to find God?
Beth Allison Barr shares a prayer: 'God, be with us and have mercy'
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Beth Allison Barr shares a prayer: 'God, be with us and have mercy'
Annabel Abbs-Streets on embracing your night self
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Annabel Abbs-Streets on embracing your night self
I really enjoy this program. It has a broad perspective and insight, high-quality content, and beautiful sound-it's basically the ideal show I’ve been looking for.
These Ai uploads of fake Ai people are making me sick, 🤮 click 👎
The Universe is Not a Hierarchical Pyramid of Mathematic Quantities !!! The Universe is a Wholarchical Sphere of Multiples Spheres of Consciousness Qualities !!! The Beauty of Timeless and Formless Consciousness Shines in the Form in Time ❤️ 💚 💜
The Virtuous Noble Lies of the West Demon Cracy and Capitalism as a Trap of the Ocult Agreement of Consent in Abusive Relationships Enough of the United Snakes of America and its Dogs !!!
Original piece: th-cam.com/video/4-ISLpKhQJI/w-d-xo.html
One of the most compelling recommendations I’ve ever heard lol
Visiting the Pabst Best Place is the closest you will get to touching the former glory days of the Milwaukee beer world. Highly recommend stopping in sometime.
lacking specificity
What a terrible mistake the audio track is
It's always silly to me when people are flabbergasted by the notion of trees being able to hear. Their bodies are made of wood. They've got very acoustic bodies! Our pink and brown fleshy bodies feel vibrations against us or in the air... imagine not having ears but just focusing on those vibrations you can feel. Or ask a deaf person. Cheers 🍉✌️
She's absolutely phenomenal!
Me too!
Great conversation
Wow,I'm the first listener here. Recomend this highly.
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Very interesting
Mushrooms won't give you wisdom or knowledge they will take you into a rabbit hole of darkness only Christ gives the true Light
What if I told you they were sent here by Christ. There’s no separation between these things and the experiences they bring, religion is a failed attempt to modernize/humanize psychedelic spiritual experiences. These things grown naturally on our planet.
@Marz333 Mushrooms are a natural plant I'd have to agree with you on that point but saying that Christianity has failed isn't true The bible clearly teaches us that there is only one way to the Father and that is through Jesus any other belief system is false
@@cathy7382wrong. 99% of humans never even heard of the name Jesus. You demonizing everyone and everything else is the exact opposite of his teachings anyways. Christianity started as a mushroom cult anyways.
The selfish gene refers not to selfishness in the individual, but that the gene itself is selfish. In the Selfish Gene, Dawkins explores how altruism could evolve through selfish gene mechanisms. He calls altruism an evolutionary stable strategy, and an altruistic group will prevail over a selfish one.
This is wonderful. Thanks to “To The Best of Our Knowledge”. Keep up the great work!
I gave up ; all , unfettered i drifted away z zeplines tour the moons crater ice cream stands :
Gurda rules
Rumpleschnitz
The eight legs on the horse is theorized to be because when you look at it in the firelight of a torch it flickers and appears animated.
I'm a Muskogee Native living in Utah. Mvto
Hi sister, I am a part of the tribe also.
This is fascinating. I'm a loner. That doesn't mean I cant be in groups of people, it just has to be a situation that works. Social get togethers can be incredibly deflating and tedious ; but not all of them ; like I go to a Church which is great. I'm there for Spiritual fulfillment, to sing, to reflect, to enjoy the beauty of the Church. I can have nice interactions with the folks there over coffee, and indeed, can deal with it because its arms lengthy. In time, I'm sure there will be a few hiccups, but I'm sticking with it.
We’re was she from?
Mexico
So, basically Martin Eden.
I'm a 14 year old. My mom works in renewable energy and she went on a work trip where she was told a story about the founder of HYUNDAI. He was actually quite poor before he started his company, working on the fields. And when it was time to sleep, his bed was infested with bed bugs. So, he got up and decided to sleep on the table. And guess what? The bed bugs got the table too. He placed bowls of water under the table legs so the bugs couldn't crawl up- and guess what they did? They went over the walls and hopped down to the table from the roof. If bed bugs,( barely concious beings in my opinion) can do that, can find a way in conditions specifically set against them- I refuse to believe we humans are doomed.
I appreciate you as I just seen you share with @MelRobins about the U curve of love. I advocate for those #Neurogifted as I just found out that I was diagnosed being High Functioning, ADHD & Highly Sensitive to words and lighting
Just listened to his interview with Sam Harris. I can tell he has a very similar experience to mine. Unexplainable, terrifying , enlightening and unforgettable.
A nice relaxed conversation , love the history
What are humans NUMBERS!!or their derivatives
good music choice btw
The algorithm knows me.
Always an absolute joy! In every sense ;)
Yes people hare what they fear or don't understand
Psychedelics are a trojan horse to the western mind. That house of cards falls quickly. Keep your scientism politics religion and technologies AWAY.
So what? Having even one penny means nothing I because when you die you can’t take it with you
Fr it’s a problem when you don’t realize that Pennie’s are just pieces of earthly creation that will not exist when our spirit breaks free from flesh
Absolutely agree.at the same it's a shame she had to live so roughly although she helped so many people healers.gurus etc.should be compensated for their works cause while.your alive you do need money as much as that may kinda suck on some levels
So the moon blocks the light of the sun. Yep that's it. Stop making mumbo jumbo out of it.
He isn’t talking mumbo jumbo. He describes what many people felt when they saw it, including me.
Beautiful testimony ❤ I am an Ayahuasca advocate myself.
Well this has changed my life! THANK YOU. It reminds me that part of loving is responsibility and respect and curiosity beyond one's own ego. I am going to go out and talk to my garden today!
Just found y'all. If all your content is as good as this you got a new fan. Good job 🙏
People love McDonalds. It’s still fast food. It serves a purpose but is still dodgy My pushback against pop is the corporate machine behind it, not necessarily the performers or consumers. As far as K-pop is concerned, some heads of companies have stated that they’re selling the “idols”, so when I hear people talk about how real the “idols” are, I have to roll my eyes. Acting is part of their job. Most of it probably isn’t scripted but some is. But it’s like K-pop fans have never heard of improv. Sure these people can give glimpses of their true selves, just like any other actor, But 90% of it is an act. Funny how the broadcast mentions racism in K-pop but barely touches on racist acts done by the performers and how the fans make all types of excuses for them. Just further shows how our connection with reality is blurry. How fiction, in whatever form, has such an impact on our lives. If relating to a character makes you feel better, it’s all good, but losing sight of the fact that you’re interacting with a character is troubling.
Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania...final resting place & my home.
its in the Book read MATTHEW 24:24 look it up
Get rid of the pseudo Ruffa phony letters of Paul You’re making false assumptions based on Dishonest fiction. Women and men have not done a very good job of trying to understand each other for a very long time, why use the Bible to make it worse? That said, why does anybody use the Bible be fascist, or conservative, or fanatical, or bigoted, or murderous?
America is a Christian nation we were founded as a Christian nation. You can belive whatever you want but Christianity should be at the heart of everything we do as a nation. God bless America. And if you don't like it kick rocks and go to a non-Christian nation and try that out
Don't let it happen
Probably the book I’ve read more than any other. It has elements of Cormac Mcarthy, W H Hudson, Dante, Ezra Pound.