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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."
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.
For the Aboriginal people of Australia, the concept of "The Dreaming" means an existence with no linear time.
Tia Fuller's life is steeped in jazz. She's a saxophone player who composes, teaches, and has several albums under her belt. If that's not enough, she also spent five years touring the world with Beyonce's all-woman R & B band. Her new album is called "Angelic Warrior."
Susan Hirschmann is a legendary children's book editor and founder of Greenwillow Books.
Sonu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology at University College, London, and editor of Carl Jung's "Red Book."
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