Obama Takes On Bush and McCain
The U.S. presidential election seems to be off and running with President Bush taking a pre-emptive strike at 'appeasers' who want to negotiate with other countries leaders. Presumptive Democrat candidate Barack Obama ain't having none of it.
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Ten Ways the World Could End
Stephen Petranek reveals the questions that keep some scientists up at night. How might the world end? He lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle accelerator gone wild?
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Harpooned: Japanese Whaling Scandal Exposed
Stake outs, testimony from informers, hidden cameras and tailing trucks full of stolen goods - it reads like a Hollywood movie, but it was an every day experience for Greenpeace activists in Japan, who spent four months cracking open a major conspiracy of corruption at the heart of Japan's government-backed, sham scientific whaling operation.
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935 Lies
935 falsehoods told by our leading guys. Eyes of steel, tongues of fork, 935 lies... Actor, political commentator and one of the voices of The Simpsons, Harry Shearer sings about 935 lies that led the USA (and coalition of the willing) to war in Iraq.
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Releasing the Music in Your Head
Tod Machover of MIT's Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression for everyone - from virtuosi to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms - from opera to video games. He talks about what's coming next, from new tools for music creativity to the world's first robotic opera. He introduces Dan Ellsey, a young man with cerebral palsy who has found his voice through music created and performed using Media Lab technologies.
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Mind Science
 Buddhist psychotherapist RENATE OGILVIE reports from the Happiness Conference that neuro-scientists now believe that brain cells can renew themselves and our minds can be trained in happiness.
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Inside Burma's Cyclone Disaster
One of Al Jazeera's correspondents in Burma (Myanmar) has managed to reach the area worst-hit by Cyclone Nargis - villages at the heart of the Irrawaddy delta - and hear for the first time eye-witness accounts of the true scale of the disaster.
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