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Srdja Popovic - Toppling Dictators

Srdja Popovic is a Serbian political activist, whose student group Otpor! helped topple Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. His group CANVAS teaches activists around the world how to overthrow autocratic governments.

Ervand Abrahamian - War With Iran?

Ervand Abrahamian is considered to be one of the world's leading experts on modern Iran, and is a professor of history at City University of New York. He is the author of several books, including "The Coup: 1953,  the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations."

Russell Foster - Improve Your Sleep

Russell Foster is a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, and is the Director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, as well as the head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute.

Alex Hutchinson - Mind Over Matter

Alex Hutchinson is a former Canadian national team runner, a contributing editor to Outside Magazine, and the author of "Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance."

James B. Steele - America: What Went Wrong?

James B. Steele is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and the author of "America: What Went Wrong?" and "Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness."

Graeme Turner - Toxic Fame

Graeme Turner is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Queensland, and the author of several books, including "Understanding Celebrity" and "Ordinary People and the Media."

James Fallon - The Good Doctor Pt. IV

James Fallon is a neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine.

Lyndall Gordon - Emily Dickinson

Lyndall Gordon is a senior research fellow at Oxford University, and the author of several biographies, including "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds."

Liam Vaughan - Manhunt for a Savant

Liam Vaughan is an investigative journalist for Bloomberg and the author of "Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History".

Emerson Brooking - Information Warfare

Emerson Brooking is a fellow at the Atlantic Council and the co-author of "LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media."