The Best Of Our Knowledge #1130 - A lot of people like to relax on a warm day, puttering around alone in their garden.  However...you might not be as alone as you think.  Today on The Best Of Our Knowledge, our Astrobiology series goes into Microbiology mode to explore the origins of the unseen life around us. And we'll spend an Academic Minute learning about the complex chemistry that goes into making a gourmet dinner.
	The Best Of Our Knowledge #1129 - Last year at this time, the late Joe Paterno was an iconic college football coach at Penn State University...a man who had a job for as long as he wanted.  By the end of the year he had been fired, his 46 year legacy tarnished by a child abuse scandal. Today on The Best Of Our Knowledge, we'll hear from the author of a new book on the continuing fallout of that scandal.
	The Best Of Our Knowledge #1128 - Vampires, deadly spiders, lethal lasers, out-of-control asteroids...who knew that math could be so perilous.  Today on The Best Of Our Knowledge, we’ll talk to the author of “The Book Of Perfectly Perilous Math”...and find out how students are learning math while saving the world..or not.
	The Best Of Our Knowledge #1127 - Growing up with Dyslexia is no fun at all.  Growing up with Dyslexia and never being diagnosed and getting the proper educational help...that can make school a nightmare. Today on The Best Of Our Knowledge, we’ll meet Sonya Bridges...a teacher who grew up in that situation and is now reaching out to help others.
	The Best Of Our Knowledge #1126 - In a world of constant stimulation and multi-media availability...it’s not often that a children’s book stands out...but that’s what the people at National Geographic set out to do with a collection of stories, songs and activities called The Classic Treasury of Childhood Wonders.     Today on The Best Of Our Knowledge, we’ll talk to the book’s author. Then we’ll check in on a collage in Massachusetts which just received nearly a million dollars to establish an early education resource center.
	The Best Of Our Knowledge #1125 - Astronomers have discovered the darkest known exoplanet - a distant, Jupiter-sized gas giant known as TrES-2b. Their measurements show that TrES-2b reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it, making it blacker than coal or any planet or moon in our solar system.  And the most amazing thing about this discovery is that, apparently, you can find one too if you know where to look.