Worshipping Waterfalls: The Evolution of Belief
Jane Goodall has seen wild chimpanzees dance and bristle with excitement around roaring waterfalls — and she thinks it’s an experience of aw...
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To the Best of Our Knowledge
To the Best of Our Knowledge cracks open the world and the ideas that fuel it through interviews with the world's luminaries, from experts to cultural icons. Each show revolves around a them...
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Listen to To the Best of Our Knowledge, a Society & Culture podcast by Wisconsin Public Radio. Stream 50 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 50 episodesRewriting the Romance Script
We take a look at the romantic tropes of modern love and how they’re changing. Do the old dreams of true love and happiness ever after fit o...
To All The Dogs We've Loved
The bond we share with dogs runs deep. The satisfaction of gentle head scratches or a round of playing fetch is simple and pure, but in othe...
Our Time of Mourning
Is there a better way to talk about death? And to grieve? So many people have died during the pandemic — 4.8 million and counting — that we'...
Searching for Order in the Universe
When things don't go the way they're supposed to — viruses, star systems, presidents, even fish — we're often desperate to explain the chaos...
Journeys Through Gender
Sharing of personal pronouns has become standard practice on resumes, business cards, email signatures and more. And that’s just one sign of...
A Parenting Revolution
The pandemic has made it clear that parents are walking a tightrope with no safety net. We talk to parents about how they want to change the...
Time Beyond The Clock
Clocks and calendars chop time into increments – minutes, hours, days, years. It’s efficient, and it helps us get to meetings on time. But w...
The Power of Pleasure and Joy
What if the most unselfish thing you could do was to pursue pleasure? To look for delight? To feel joy? We make the case for the transformat...
Whose Land Is It?
Ever want to quit your job, leave the rat race behind, and head back to the land? Buy an old farmhouse or build a solar-powered home and liv...
Reading While Young
Remember when reading still felt magical? When a book could sweep you off your feet into another world? It might be that the best way to fin...
If Your Clothes Could Talk
Whether you know it or not, your closets are filled with personal information. About your identity, your values, your personality. And every...
Rethinking the Holidays
We’re in the holiday season of the worst pandemic of our lives. Canceling our gatherings is the safe thing to do. But, how can we still — cr...
Shapeshifting
There are old folktales and legends of people who can become animals. Animals who can become people. And there’s a lesson for our own time i...
Living With Loneliness
After a pandemic year of social isolation, we knew loneliness would be a problem. But public health officials have been warning for years th...
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...
Generation Witch
As a culture we’ve long been fascinated by witchcraft, with witches through the ages practicing magic and making spells. Even through the sp...
Solace of Nature
Rustling of leaves, sploshing of water, birds calling, bees buzzing. Wherever you live — city or country, East coast, West coast, or in betw...
Mysteries of Migration
If you had to travel 500 miles across country, on foot, with no map, no GPS, without talking to anyone — to a destination you've never seen,...
Jazz Migrations
Music crosses boundaries between traditional and modern, local and global, personal and political. Take jazz — a musical form born out of fo...
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