Dr. Jeffrey Jones has a plan to transform education and eradicate the rampant dropout rate most public schools experience today. We talk about his latest manifesto Officially Pathetic.

Douglas Wellman and Mark Musick challenge everything we think we know about Howard Hughes’s later life. It turns out that Howard Hughes may not have been the crazy, old man he was made out to be. We look at the new facts revealed in Boxes: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes.

Dr. Louanne Brizendine is a neuroscientist who specializes in the relationship dynamics that result from the differences in men’s and women’s brains. We discuss her latest book, The Male Brain.

Here is the lineup of guests on BRAINSTORMIN’ with Billy the Brain for Thursday, February 3, 2011. Listen at www.BrainstorminOnline.com or on AM 1400 in Ventura at 10 o’clock am Pacific time.

Mark Aesch is a model bureaucrat. He eradicated multi-million dollar deficits at the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority (RGRTA) and replaced them with surpluses. We discuss the lessons he teaches about business, and life, in his book Driving Excellence:Transform Your Organization’s Culture And Achieve Revolutionary Results.

Douglas Rushkoff had a revelation about modern life after being mugged. He discovered that business—and corporations—are the dominant facts of contemporary life. We discuss what’s so terrible about life is becoming more business-like from his latest book, Life, Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back