Since the disputed presidential elections in Iran over the summer, there have been a series of protests, the latest, on Sunday, ending in at least 8 fatalities. How does today’s unrest in Iran compare – if it does at all – to the demonstrations which preceded the Iranian Revolution 30 years ago in 1979? We talk with Baqer Moin, the former head of the BBC Persian Service, and Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Iranian studies at Columbia University, about whether the country is headed for another revolution.

• Airline Takeout: Airline Consultant and President of R.W. Mann and Company Incorporated, Robert Mann, tells us how the airline industry is being affected by the latest terrorist situation on Northwest flight 253.
• The Value: In the latest installment in her series, "The Value," Takeaway correspondent Farai Chideya follows Umesh Malhotra, a former tech entrepreneur who gave up his job to form libraries poor children in his native India.
• Sports: Contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin picks another of his most memorable sports stories this year: the triumph of University of Connecticut's Huskies women's basketball team.

What have we learned from the swine flu crisis that wasn't? Joan Nichols, associate director of research at the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and D.A. Henderson, public health expert and co-author of "Smallpox- the Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer," share their differing opinions on what we did right and what went wrong.

Apple's iPhone continued to dominate popular technology this year. In today's "Best of 2009," The Takeaway talks to technology writer Marshall Kirkpatrick about his favorite iPhone applications of the year. Marshall is lead writer at ReadWriteWeb, a blog about technology news.

It's Tuesday, our day on The Takeaway to consider how work affects our lives. With millions of Americans scrambling to find work after layoffs, and millions more who will have to work longer because of losses in the stock market, we talk wtih Marci Alboher, Senior Fellow at Civic Ventures about whether it's possible, even in today's competitive job market, to find a job that is meaningful. James Smallwood, a union carpenter and the founder and CEO of the nonprofit The Choice is Yours Inc., says it is possible. He explains how he did it and how his employees are helping to benefit society.

The investigation continues into how Uma Farouk Abdulmutallab was allegedly able to smuggle explosives onto Northwest Airlines Flight 253. President Obama from Hawaii said in a press conference that "we need to determine just how this suspect was able to bring dangerous explosives aboard an aircraft and what additional steps we can take to thwart future attacks." At The Takeaway, we want to find the answers to that, too: What exactly went wrong, and how can it be prevented in the future? To help with the answer is Barbara Peterson, a senior aviation correspondent for Conde Nast Traveller, and Chris Yates, and aviation security analyst for defense publication Jane's.

• Protest Takeout: A terror plot abroad a Northwest Airlines flight has angered Muslims in Dearborn, Mich., to stand up against radical Islam. Majed Moughni, an attorney in Dearborn, talks to us about demonstrations he is organizing.
• Returns Takeout: Hitha Prabhakar, a retail analyst in New York City, warns that  many retail stores have tricky post-holiday return policies. So, pay very close attention to the fine print.
• Listeners Takeout: Takeaway listeners respond to the fallout from this weekend’s airline safety incident aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253.

Minnesotans have a lot to lose this year if they don’t fill out the 2010 Census: They could lose a congressional seat. The Takeaway talks with a Tom Scheck of Minnesota Public Radio about why the Census matters in Minnesota.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempted to detonate an explosive called pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas day. PETN was also used back in 2001 by Richard Reid, better known as the shoe bomber, who tried to destroy a plane over the Atlantic. That’s two high-profile failures for PETN. So, why does it seem to be the explosive of choice for these terrorists? To help explain this is Jimmie Oxley, a professor of chemistry at the University of Rhode Island, whose specialty is explosives.

As part our week-long look at how our lives have changed over the last decade, we turn to advances in technology. Joining us to weigh in on the most notable tech innovations during the last 10 years are Baratunde Thurston, host of “Popular Science’s Future Of” on the Science Channel, and Clive Thompson, a contributor to Wired magazine.