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The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nurses, tarantulas, and curious chimpanzees

By Lucas Willard
Published April 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT
Josh Landes
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WAMC
A hospital bed (WAMC file photo)

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research. On this episode, we’ll learn what’s keeping more student nurses from graduating in New York.

A newly identified species of tarantula is setting a record among large, furry spiders.

And humans are not the only ones with an affinity for beautiful crystals.

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Lucas Willard is a news reporter and host at WAMC Northeast Public Radio, which he joined in 2011. He produces and hosts The Best of Our Knowledge and WAMC Listening Party.
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