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The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.Birds of a different feather sometimes stick together. We’ll learn about two raptors of separate species that displayed an unusual friendship.And elephants depend on their trunks to navigate the world. Their whiskers make it all possible.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.Birds of a different feather sometimes stick together. We’ll learn about two raptors of separate species that displayed an unusual friendship.And elephants depend on their trunks to navigate the world. Their whiskers make it all possible.

Oren Harman tells us about his latest book, "Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History. ," where Harman traces a path from Aristotle to Darwin to cutting-edge science today, to explore this miraculous yet violent process of transformation and metaphor for identity, reinvention, and survival.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.Arsenic is a naturally-occurring toxin with a big reputation.But scientists say arsenic-contaminated waste could have a potential public benefit, including in advanced manufacturing. We’ll explore how an environmental challenge could become an economic opportunity.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.An analysis of pottery fragments from ancient Mesopotamia has revealed what may demonstrate a mathematical system developed before numbers.And in the absence of federal funding, a proposal hopes to create a new hub for medical research.

Chancellor John King, Jr. says the system’s 4-year institutions, especially university centers, drive most research across the system’s campuses, but every college is involved in research activities.

"Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure" by Jennie Erin Smith is an account of a community from the remote mountains of Colombia whose rare and fatal genetic mutation is unlocking the secrets of Alzheimer’s disease.Jennie Smith will be talking about and signing the new book on Saturday, May 10 at 3 p.m. at The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, New York.

Norman Ohler, the author of the New York Times bestseller "Blitzed," returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, in "Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age."

On this episode, we’ll learn about how an increase in research spending over decades has changed NYU.And we’ll speak with an international scholar in the area of therapy dogs in classrooms.

Norman Ohler, the author of the New York Times bestseller "Blitzed," returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, in "Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age." (Mariner Books)