President Obama is hosting the first-ever White House summit on community colleges today. While the two-year schools are glad to be getting the recognition, many are disappointed that the initial $12 billion the president pledged to them is now just $2 billion. Other community college leaders tell the Chronicle of Higher Education that the White House seemed to throw together the summit at the last minute and didn't get input on topics important to educators. Jeff Selingo, editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education, is our guest.

The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, warned recently that the number of military suicides will likely increase as large numbers of troops return home after multiple deployments. Mullen's warning comes on the heels of a Pentagon task force report that found the military's suicide prevention efforts, even after they've been beefed up, are still inadequate. We speak to Army Major General Mark Graham, a leading figure in that prevention effort. Gen. Graham lost both of his soldier sons, one in combat and the other, a promising ROTC cadet, to suicide in 2003.

Liu Xiaobo, a leading figure in the struggle for human rights and democracy, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is currently serving an 11-year prison term in China for "inciting subversion of state power." Chinese officials have protested his nomination, saying "his actions are diametrically opposed to the aims of the Nobel prize." We speak with Larry Siems of the PEN American Center, a human rights organization which nominated Liu Xiaobo for the peace prize.

Saleem Ali makes a passionate argument in a recent article for what he calls "elemental accounting" — tracking and accounting for the elements that go into consumer goods. Ali says the elements in products may be non-renewable, like the Boron in Pyrex cookware and Platinum in catalytic converters, but they are also indestructible. If we account for them, we can design products that make re-using those elements simple, and that would keep the elements in use indefinitely. Ali is a professor of Environmental Studies, and his new book is "Treasures Of The Earth: Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future."

Did you know that Mark Twain liked to make up news stories when he was a young reporter? That Frenchman Vrain-Denis Lucas duped the literary and scientific establishments during the 19th century with fake letters from Alexander the Great and Cleopatra? We revisit a conversation with Melissa Katsoulis, the author of "Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds."

• Dntel, "Last Songs"
• Sigur Ros, "Nybatteri"
• Paul Simon, "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover"
• Radiohead, "Where I End and You Begin"
• Freddie Hubbard, "Little Sunflower"
• Steve Reich, "Music for Mallets"
• Ken Vandermark, "New Acrylic"
• Grace Slick, “White Rabbit” performed by Jefferson Airplane