In this unique combination of music, visual art, story-telling and scientific presentation, Dr. Sherman explores the question of how our genes versus our environment alter the structure and function of our brains and, ultimately, who we are.

Lama Ole Nydahl is one of the few Westerners fully qualified as a lama and meditation teacher in the Karma Kagyu Buddhist tradition.  He has established more than 600 Buddhist centers in 50 countries around the world.  Lama Ole offers a rare combination: an authentic master of Tibetan Buddhism and a layperson with a modern Western viewpoint.

Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-born American author, physician, and human rights advocate, is one of the most widely read and beloved novelists in the world. The Kite Runner, his 2003 debut, was nothing short of a cultural phenomenon.