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How is a knowledge of creatures we may never see important to our general understanding of how life works on our planet?

Are the recent revolts and protests in the Middle East a logical next step in the history of the Arab people and their culture?

Why is high school so hard for some kids and so easy for others? How can we help them all navigate the challenging and complex youth culture of today and still manage to learn something?

What happened in Cambodia? We’ll examine the post-Khmer Rouge, post-Vietnamese and post-United Nations history of the country with Stanford University journalism professor and New York Times veteran reporter Joel Brinkley.

What does it take to really understand a country and the people who live there?

Who are today’s real adventure heroes? We’ll talk this hour with Mark Jenkins whose current National Geographic cover story “Yosemite’s Superclimbers” profiles a few athletes who are pushing the climbing envelope.

What was life like for the first Native American to graduate Harvard College in 1665?

Who is Yoshi Kojima? We’ll find out this hour as we explore the lucrative and obscure world of illegal butterfly trafficking with journalist Jessica Speart.

Until Mesquite ventriloquist Terry Fator won the $1 million grand prize on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, ventriloquism may have seemed like a vaudeville act of yesteryear. Mark Goffman pulls back the curtain on the big time ventriloquism industry.

How does the recent past inform our preset culture and what was so great about the 1980s anyway?

How did Mexico gain its independence in 1910 and how did the revolution transform the country and its relationships with the United States and the rest of the world?

What is necessary for human survival in space and how long can a person reasonably expect to thrive in such an inhospitable, zero-gravity environment?