Are you considering turning your backyard into an urban farm? We’ll discuss trading the rat race for chickens, goats, bushels of produce and lots of work.

The United States may be falling behind overall when it comes to science and math education, but there are a few American kids who are achieving fantastic results in the world of high-stakes pre-college science fair competitions.

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.