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#1660: Mass timber buildings could be a part of the climate solution | The Best of Our Knowledge
Jason Korb, the principal architect and namesake of Korb + Associates Architects, makes an interesting distinction about mass timber buildings, structures that largely eschew...
#1658: Professors and free speech | The Best of Our Knowledge
From the consternation over books in public school libraries — which will be the focus of next week’s episode of The Best of Our...
#1657: The developing landscape of psychedelics in medicine | The Best of Our Knowledge
The history of psychedelics, and mind and mood altering substances in the United States is a complicated one, rife with bizarre turns and at...
#1656: Gender equity in jazz education | The Best of Our Knowledge
Terri Lyne Carrington has been playing and recording music in the company of rarified jazz talent for more than 40 years. A part of...
#1655: Snowpack and drought in the West | The Best of Our Knowledge
There’s a spot atop California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains where research on snowpack and drought began more than 70 years ago. At one point, there...
#1654: Can you teach comedy? | The Best Of Our Knowledge
During the past few years, comedians seemingly have become cultural avatars, their performances garnering coverage in news outlets and their perspectives becoming political sign...