Tenzin Palmo is a Tibetan Buddhist who was born in England as Diane Perry. She became a Buddhist nun and spent twelve years meditating alone in a tiny, remote cave in the Himalayas.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ron Corn Jr. is one of about 20 fluent speakers of the Menominee language. He has devoted his life to saving his language from extinction through the community-based Menominee Language Institute.
Toby Nunn was a Sergeant First Class who served two tours in Iraq. Home now, he's finding it hard to adjust to civilian life, but as he told Steve Paulson, he's still taking care of the men in his platoon.
Rob Knight is one of the rising stars in the new science of the microbiome. He tells us what he and his colleagues are up to at his Boulder, Colorado lab.
Steven Poole tells Anne Strainchamps that video games can be an art form and that they will continue to increase in sophistication.
In this look behind the scenes, producer Veronica Rueckert and Anne Strainchamps remember our interview with Amy Wallace-Havens, the sister of the late David Foster Wallace.
Exploding urbanism might be the biggest global innovation challenge, Chris Anderson says.
Nina Simone's powerful voice and turbulent life are the subjects of an Oscar-nominated documentary, a new biography and a forthcoming Hollywood biopic. But it's her politics that speaks most forcefully to a new generation of African American activists. Biographer Alan Light talks about the incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon.
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