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- Renowned glassblower Dale Chihuly discusses his history and what excites him about the medium, with additional insights about his life and style from friends, students and fellow artists.
- If you had two minutes to give the world your take, what would you say? Each week, PBS NewsHour's new series "Brief but Spectacular" will feature some of the brightest minds of today, offering passionate takes on topics they know well. The first installment features poet Sarah Kay's take on gratitude.
- Is there a moment when Margaret Atwood realized her writing could radicalize people? The Handmaid's Tale author reads a portion of the book and explains its political appeal.
- Andy Puddicombe, the co-founder of the app Headspace, tells us that meditation is not "an aspirin, something to take when we get stressed." We should see it "more as a vitamin." He explains that moment when his path to self-discovery began.
- Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer offer their brief but spectacular take on how they went from struggling for stage time in an improv group to creating their own cable comedy show, "Broad City."
- How should the U.S. address problems of violent policing? As a nation, we may be asking the police to do certain things that they shouldn't, says Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Atlantic correspondent offers his Brief But Spectacular take on the legacy of white supremacy in America today.
- As a little kid who watched TV, writer and director Jill Soloway says she wanted to be on "the other side of the glass." Now she's the creator of "Transparent," a show based on her personal experience having a parent come out as transgender. Soloway offers her Brief But Spectacular take on the evolution in Hollywood toward embracing more diverse stories and perspectives.
- Alice Waters, owner and former chef of the legendary Chez Panisse restaurant and maven of the slow food movement, says the best way to combat fast food culture is through "edible education." Waters offers her Brief but Spectacular take on the benefits of cooking and inspiring young people to care about their food.
- Four years ago, artist Marina Abramovic sat in the Museum of Modern Art for 716 hours and 30 minutes for a work called "The Artist Is Present." Abramovic offers her Brief but Spectacular take on the value of good performance art, personal reflection and finding your place in the world.
- Michael Lewis, author of "Liar's Poker," "Moneyball" and "The Big Short" went from working on Wall Street to becoming one of its biggest critics. Lewis offers his Brief But Spectacular take on what the wealthy elite often overlook.
- A lot has changed about parenting since the first days of America, including our perceptions of what's best for our children. Jennifer Senior, author of "All Joy and No Fun," offers her Brief But Spectacular take on the paradoxes of modern parenthood.
- So far, space travel is limited because we have to transport everything we need using rockets. But what if we could build whatever we needed? Jason Dunn, whose company built the first 3D printer to operate in space, shares his Brief but Spectacular take on the future of self-sufficiency in space travel.
- Droughts are here to stay, says Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, so his city is striving to employ sustainable practices to preserve water not just for the next two years, but decades beyond that. Garcetti offers his Brief but Spectacular take on California's evolving relationship with water.
- Meditation teacher Trudy Goodman, founder of InsightLA, shares her Brief but Spectacular take on how our lives could be enhanced if we incorporated a bit of mindfulness into our daily routines.
- When you're the one black friend, says Baratunde Thurston, you're kind of like a double agent trying to prevent thermonuclear war. The former Onion digital director, "Daily Show" producer and author of "How to Be Black," gives his Brief but Spectacular take on humor as a tool for overcoming racism.
- Political consultant Fred Davis has had no shortage of notable clients, from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Carly Fiorina to John McCain. Davis gives his Brief but Spectacular take on how to captivate and convince viewers with an advertisement they will always remember.
- Actress and singer Rita Moreno fought typecasting and industry pressure to go on to be the first Latino to win an Oscar, Tony, Emmy and a Grammy. Moreno gives her Brief But Spectacular take on a lifetime in show business.
- Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, who make up the musical duo Pomplamoose, explain in this Brief But Spectacular take how they harness their fans' internet curiosity with their covers of Beyonce hits and behind-the-scenes videos.
- Illustrative journalist Wendy MacNaughton offers her Brief but Spectacular take on telling under-told stories through drawing.
- When photographer Ken Van Sickle was 23 and living in Paris, he could barely afford rolls of film. One night, hearing that jazz great Chet Baker was playing, he went and took only two pictures, and one was blurry. So what's happened to photography now that everyone has the technology to take as many pictures as they like? Van Sickle offers his Brief But Spectacular take.
- Journalist and author A.J. Jacobs has been called a "human guinea pig," a title he's earned by diving into his subjects and radically changing his lifestyle: he once spent a month without telling a single lie, and a year obeying every rule in the Bible. He offers his Brief But Spectacular take on his immersive brand of journalism.
- Jad Abumrad, co-host of Radiolab, says he grew up in a kind of in-between space, as an Arab kid in Nashville. That experience molded him as a journalist, able to stand back as an observer, and to allow the fumbling awkwardness of discovery to come through. Now Abumrad offers his Brief But Spectacular take on why radio will never die.