Is science really open to every good idea? Controversial biologist Rupert Sheldrake says modern science is mired in various dogmas - boundaries you're not supposed to cross, at least if you value your job and your reputation.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The demographics of the United States are changing: how does the latest wave of immigration fit into the historical pattern?
Howard Axelrod was accidentally blinded in one eye in a freak accident when he was in college. Disoriented and depressed, he retreated to an off-the-grid cabin in the Vermont wilderness. He stayed there, alone, for 2 years. Now he's published a memoir about his period of renunciation, "The Point of Vanishing."
Sarah Bakewell is the author of “How to Live” an unorthodox biography of the great French philosopher and essayist Montaigne.
Ziauddin Sardar responds to the question "is there really a clash of civilizations?"
Steven Connor says there's much more to ventriloquism than exchanging quips with a wooden dummy. He tells Anne Strainchamps that a lot of this history has to do with the disembodied voice.
Robin Swicord wrote and directed "The Jane Austen Book Club." She talks with Anne Strainchamps.
Sonu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology at University College, London, and editor of Carl Jung's "Red Book."
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