Most young men during the Vietnam era faced a choice, whether or not to be drafted into the US Armed Forces. For Jim Fleming, and his friends Robert Cardinaux and Mark Peterson, the chose to become Conscientious Objectors. They worked together in alternative service as psychiatric aides.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Carl Safina tells Jim Fleming about the leatherback turtle, which has been around for a hundred million years.
Eric Steel tells Steve Paulson that his crew filmed The Golden Gate Bridge every daylight minute for one year, and thus witnessed many suicides and even more attempts.
Jon Ronson believes capitalism favors psychopaths and is creating more of them.
Eric Morel is boxing’s flyweight World Champion. He was born in Puerto Rico but now lives and trains in Wisconsin. TTBOOK’s Charles Monroe Kane joined Morel at the gym for a day.
What if you could take a pill or download netware to supercharge your brain? Physicist Michio Kaku says augmented intelligence and memory playback systems are the future of brain science.
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.
Steve Paulson always dreamed of seeing ancient cave art. He finally got his wish - and tells the story of visiting two French caves with anthropologist Christine Desdemaines-Hugon.
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