Eleven fans trampled at a Who concert. Voyager 1 examines Jupiter's ring. Five years ago, the struggle for independence in Namibia ended. The South African flag came down, and the hard work of dismantling apartheid began. Dale Ratcliffe travels Namibia, chronicling the changes, the hopes and concerns of the people who live there.
People have different styles of thought.
Until recently, the existence of distinct mentalities was widely accepted. Literate and scientific modes of thought were opposed to more primitive modes. But contemporary scholars reject a hierarchical arrangement of thought styles. That's one of the questions raised in this investigation of how modes of thought should be described and distinguished. The series was recorded at an interdisciplinary meeting of anthropologists, historians of ideas, philosophers of science and cognitive psychologists in Toronto.