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The Best Episodes of Closer to Truth

Every episode of Closer to Truth ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Closer to Truth!

Closer to Truth is a continuing television series on PBS & public television originally created, produced and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. The first premiere series aired in 2000 for 2 seasons, followed by a

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    Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 1 - What are the Grand Questions of Science?
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    #1 - What are the Grand Questions of Science?

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  2. Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 2 - Will the Internet Change Humanity?
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  3. Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 3 - What's Creativity and Who's Creative?
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    #3 - What's Creativity and Who's Creative?

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    A discussion on creativity, where it comes from and how it's applied. Among the panelists: TV producer Stephen J. Cannell, inventor Ray Kurzweil, music educator Robert Freeman, creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihaly and corporate-creativity expert John Kao.

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  4. Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 4 - New Communities for the New Millennium?
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    #4 - New Communities for the New Millennium?

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    Topic: the concept of community in political, social, scientific and technological contexts. Panelists include astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institute), social architect Barbara Marx Hubbard, linguist John McWhorter and Yale Law School student Saru Jayaraman. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

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  5. Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 5 - How Did This Universe Begin?
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    #5 - How Did This Universe Begin?

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    A discussion of scientific findings concerning the beginnings of the universe, with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, cosmologists Andrei Linde and Wendy Freedman, theologian Nancey Murphy and mathematician Frank Tipler. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

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  6. Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 6 - Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?
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    #6 - Can We See the Near Future - Year 2025?

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    Experts try to forecast the near future (2025). Guests include creativity expert Edward de Bono, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, artificial-intelligence expert Edward Feigenbaum, futurist Graham T.T. Molitor and planetary scientist Bruce Murray. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

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  7. Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 7 - What Is Consciousness?
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    #7 - What Is Consciousness?

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    A discussion of the nature of consciousness. Panelists include philosophy professor John Searle, physicist James Trefil, consciousness expert David Chalmers, anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz and theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf. Host: Robert Kuhn.

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  8. Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 8 - Can You Really Extend Your Life?
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    #8 - Can You Really Extend Your Life?

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    A discussion of the biology of aging and facts about living longer. The panel includes longevity expert Roy Walford, gene therapist W. French Anderson, Yale professor of surgery Sherwin Nuland, fitness theorist Arthur S. De Vany and biophysicist Gregory Stock. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

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  9. Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 9 - Can ESP Affect Our Lives?
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    #9 - Can ESP Affect Our Lives?

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    A discussion of extrasensory perception by physicist James Trefil, parapsychologists Charles Tart and Dean Radin, neuropsychologist Barry Beyerstein and anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

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  10. Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 10 - Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?
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    #10 - Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?

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    A discussion of the waning of ethics and civility in American society. Panelists include Bruce Chapman (Discovery Institute), theologian Richard Mouw, Yale Law School student Saru Jayaraman, linguist John McWhorter and social architect Barbara Marx Hubbard.

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  11. Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 11 - How Does Technology Transform Thinking?
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    #11 - How Does Technology Transform Thinking?

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    A discussion of how technology transforms thinking, with geopolitical economist Francis Fukuyama, artificial-intelligence expert Marvin Minsky, fuzzy-logic expert Bart Kosko, planetary scientist Bruce Murray and Teledyne co-founder George Kozmetsky. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

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  12. Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 12 - Strange Physics of the Mind?
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    #12 - Strange Physics of the Mind?

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  13. Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 13 - Can Science Seek the Soul?
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    #13 - Can Science Seek the Soul?

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    A discussion of whether the soul exists, with philosophy professor John Searle, theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf, neuropsychologist Warren Brown, and parapsychologists Dean Radin and Charles Tart. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

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  14. Closer to Truth Season 1 Episode 14 - Does Sex Have a Future?
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    #14 - Does Sex Have a Future?

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    A discussion of what happens when technology multiplies sexual options and accelerates sexual shifts, with sex therapists Cliff and Joyce Penner, biophysicist Gregory Stock, human-sexuality authority Paul Abramson and medical historian Vern Bullough. Host: Robert L. Kuhn.

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  15. Closer to Truth Season 2 Episode 1 - Can We Imagine the Far Future - Year 3000?
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    #15 - Can We Imagine the Far Future - Year 3000?

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  16. Closer to Truth Season 2 Episode 2 - What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science?
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    #16 - What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science?

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  17. Closer to Truth Season 2 Episode 3 - How Does Creativity Work at Work?
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    #17 - How Does Creativity Work at Work?

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  18. Closer to Truth Season 2 Episode 4 - Do Brains Make Minds?
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  19. Closer to Truth Season 2 Episode 5 - Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?
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    #19 - Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?

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  20. Closer to Truth Season 2 Episode 6 - Why Do We Make Music and Art?
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    #20 - Why Do We Make Music and Art?

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  21. Closer to Truth Season 2 Episode 7 - Why Is Quantum Physics So Beautiful?
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  22. Closer to Truth Season 2 Episode 8 - How Did We Think in the Last Millennium?
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  23. Closer to Truth Season 2 Episode 9 - Who Needs Sex Therapy?
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    #23 - Who Needs Sex Therapy?

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  24. Closer to Truth Season 2 Episode 10 - How Does Technology Transform Society?
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    #24 - How Does Technology Transform Society?

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  25. Closer to Truth Season 2 Episode 11 - Can You Learn to Be Creative?
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Best Episodes Summary

"What are the Grand Questions of Science?" is the best rated episode of "Closer to Truth". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/7/2000. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Will the Internet Change Humanity?".