As the 21st century was getting underway, Hollywood released a series of films that were daring, entertaining, and absolutely unmissable.

Films like, 25th Hour, Bring It On, Zodiac, and No Country for Old Men.

They arrived during the George W. Bush era, a chaotic time in America.

Think 9-11, Katrina, the mortgage crisis. After the Bush era, a chaotic time in America. Think 9-11, Katrina, the mortgage crisis. After the Bush

years, the country would never be the same, and neither would Hollywood. I'm Brian Raftery,

and in my new limited series, Mission Accomplished, we're going to dive into some of the biggest

movies of the Bush years, and look at what they said about the state of the nation.

We'll go behind the scenes with filmmakers and experts

and relive some of your favorite movies from the early 2000s,

from Donnie Darko to Michael Clayton, from Anchorman to Iron Man.

So slip on your sketchers, dig out your old Nokia,

and join me from Mission Accomplished, starting August 12th

on the Big Picture Feet.

Today, the science of Super-Ajors.

Memory is the glue of human identity and experience. Without memory, our focus

softens, our experience of the world blurs, and our identities melt away. As people age,

however, their memory declines, leading in some cases to dementia and Alzheimer's. Many billions of

dollars have been spent to understand the biological basis

of these phenomena, the basis of dementia, and cures for Alzheimer's. In most cases, these efforts

have failed spectacularly. In some ways, I think, Alzheimer's might be one of the most profound

and stubborn mysteries in modern science. But what if, rather than study the brains of people

with advanced memory loss, we instead studied the brains of people with the opposite condition.

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