Going blind in one eye would unnerve anyone. And for a photographer, it’s especially upsetting. But Teju Cole found that his Big Blind Spot Syndrome taught him a new way to look at the world — and actually changed his photography.
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In a small town in northern Wales you'll find a playground where it's normal for kids to play with rusty tools or build fires. It's called the Land, and it's an example of an adventure playground — where kids are free to take risks. The Land's manager, Claire Griffiths, gives us an insider's view of an adventure playground.
Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk says she's recently heard students demand trigger warnings before her lectures on rape, or ask that she not talk about the subject at all. She tells Steve Paulson that it’s more important than ever to teach students about rape law, because when it comes to sex, the line between what’s legal and what’s criminal is rapidly shifting.
Could the Islamic Jihad forge an alliance with the Aryan Nations? James Jones is an authority on religious terrorism; he says militant religious groups are beginning to collaborate.
Ian Frazier talks with Jim Fleming about fishing. He says New York’s rivers and harbor are full of great fish, and recalls some of his angling adventures both there and abroad.
Candi Cann studies death and how people remember the dead. Her latest book is "Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century." Here, she shares some resources on how to craft a digital legacy.
James Gleick's biography of the man who invented gravity, calculus and celestial mechanics, also reveals that Newton was the pre-eminent alchemist of his age.
In his book, A Chinaman's Chance, former Clinton speechwriter Eric Liu reflects on his own Chinese American identity. He tells Steve Paulson how multiculturalism is challenging traditional notions of what it means to be American.
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