Howard Zehr talks about restorative justice. The goal is to repair the harm done to the victims of crime so that the final outcome is positive for both victim and offender.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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James Twitchell tells Jim Fleming that for the first time is history, ordinary people can sample real luxury and we can’t get enough of it.
Stephen Cave talks about his book, "Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization."
The Arab Spring caught a lot of people by surprise, but not a group called Global Voices...
Frank Ahearn is a former skip tracer, a Private Investigator who specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found.
Great war photographers bring a tremendous sense of mission to their work. Most of them believe the right image seen by enough people at the right time can change the world. Maybe not right away – but in time. Over the past 30 years, the photographer James Nachtwey has covered just about every major armed conflict in the world. He's been shot and wounded more than once, and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize ten times. We talked with him when he had just put together an exhibition of photos he took in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the place those wars began - Ground Zero on 9/11.
Irene Pepperberg teaches animal cognition at Harvard and is an associate research professor at Brandeis. For thirty years, she worked with a remarkable grey parrot named Alex.
James Bamford has written two books about the National Security Agency. The new one is “Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency.”
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