David Kilcullen was a top military advisor to General Petraeus during the troop surge in Iraq. He tells Anne Strainchamps that most counter-insurgency efforts fail because foreign armies usually galvanize opposition from local people.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Clay Shirky is an internet expert and author of "Here Comes Everybody." He tells Steve Paulson how wide acceptance of social networking sites has dramatically changed our expectations of the media and even the role of journalism.
For eight years Anu Garg has been sending e-mail to a half million people in two hundred countries around the world, but it's not spam. It's "A Word a Day," a message with a definition, the word's etymology and an example of how to use it.
Dean Sluyter is a film critic and meditation teacher who combined his interests to write "Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies."
Azby Brown is an American architect who lives in Tokyo. He tells Jim Fleming how a Japanese family of four can live comfortably in a house under 1000 square feet in size.
Carrie Rickey is the film critic for "The Philadelphia Inquirer." She talks to Steve Paulson about how Marshall McLuhan's ideas influenced David Cronenberg's 1983 sci-fi/horror film, as chronicled in her essay, "Videodrome; Make Mine Cronenberg."
Daniel Tammett loves numbers, can do calculations in his head into the millions, and can recite pi to more than 22,000 digits. But he has trouble telling right from left and looking people in the eye.
Cheryl Gilkes talks with Steve Paulson about the importance of the female soloist in the tradition of gospel music.
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