Cultural Mash-ups. . Reggae meet Japan [realaudio]. Calcutta meet Minnesota. I just love discovering over and over again that people all over the world are so fundamentally similar. Manifestations of the collective unconscious? Optimistically, perhaps.

Howard Dully was lobotomized at the age of 12. His illness that required spikes to be placed into his brain through his eyes? A stepmother who wanted to get rid of him. NPR lets Howard tell his own story as he tracks down information about a procedure that left him forever scarred.