Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Pir Zubair Shah risked his life to report from Waziristan -- a Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan -- where he was detained by both the Taliban and government forces. He spoke to Jim Fleming about the dangers of reporting from that region of Pakistan.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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James Dawes interviewed a collection of convicted war criminals from the Second Sino-Japanese War. Today, they are "sweet old men" searching for forgiveness. Do they deserve it?
Writer Asra Nomani traveled alone in India and Pakistan on what became a personal, spiritual journey.
Cognitive psychologist Chris Moulin is studying the strange experience of deja vu. For some of his patients, the feeling of deja vu can be crippling.
Charles Limb is a surgeon and musician who researches the way creativity works in the brain. He puts jazz musicians inside an fMRI to find out what the brain does during musical improvisation.
Watch Charles Limb's TED Talk here
In traditional cultures, magic can be a way of seeing the world. Philosopher and ecologist David Abram has spent a lot of time with traditional shamans. He talks about reclaiming animism.
Every year TED awards a prize and in 2012 it didn't go to a person, but to an idea: The City 2.0
Anderson explains why, and what the prize makes possible.
Eric Lichtblau is one of the New York Times journalists who won a Pulitzer Prize for the story about the NSA's warrantless wire-tapping program.
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