Join 3rd millenium renaissance man, genius raconteur, author, and former rock and roll starmaker Howard Bloom to find out what the American king of pop and the Saudi prince of jihad have to do with collective intelligence, Darwinian reproduction strategies, and the future of human culture.

Filmmaker Jeff Tamblyn speaks with WIE editor Ross Robertson about making his movie Kansas vs. Darwin, which documents a fascinating chapter in the ongoing culture war between science and conservative Christianity over what school children should be taught about the origins of life.

As neuroscientists race to connect every aspect of human experience to the firing of neurons in the brain, the battle between science and religion is heating up. Will science succeed in its quest to do away with God, the soul, and all things spiritual? WIE steps inside the consciousness debate.

From the far out to the close at hand, four futurists zoom out for a bird's eye view on the global changes we're experiencing now and can anticipate in the future—each outlining both the unprecedented challenges and mind-spinning opportunities humanity faces in the minutes and years to come