When is government surveillance appropriate? Shane Harris talks about the rise of American surveillance, cyber warfare and privacy.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Tom Paine is the author of a novel called “The Pearl of Kuwait.” It follows the experiences of a Vietnamese-American Marine during the first Gulf War.
Photographer William Christenberry takes pictures of simple buildings in forgotten corners of his home place of Hale County, Alabama, year after year to document how they change over time.
Virginia Morell wrote a cover story for National Geographic Magazine on the latest research going on in the field of animal intelligence.
Astrobiologist Sara Seager, who just won a MacArthur "genius" award, says there's certainly life on other planets. Seager describes her search for bio-signatures - evidence of life in other solar systems.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt says despite what we believe, our political beliefs aren't always as well reasoned as we think.
Muadh Bhavnagarwala is a young student at Al Hedaya Islamic Center in Danbury, CT -- a city not far from Newtown, the site of last year's tragic shootings. Last year, he chose to add his voice to the national memorial service, as it was televised around the world.
Simon Worrall tells Anne Strainchamps about Mark Hoffman, possibly the greatest literary forger of all time.
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