Episode 1024
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- Brain Chemistry for Lovers
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- In Brain Chemistry For Lovers, jazz vocalist Valerie Day is joined by an orchestra and a neuroscientist to explore the chemistry of love. Inspired by an article in National Geographic, Day puts together a show that matches a classic love song to each of the different chemical phases of falling in love, from lust to break-up. In between songs, a white-coated scientist on a video screen explains the effects of brain chemicals like serotonin.
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- Poet Clem Stark
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- Poet Clem Stark makes his living as a carpenter at Oregon State University. He reads and writes in his studio on an old pioneer homestead near Dallas that he build himself. His poems deal with the details of the concrete world in carefully laid-out lines.
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- Colored Pencil Artist Wendy Thompson
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- Self-taught artist Wendy Thompson creates extremely detailed images of birds, plants and insects using colored pencils. It's time-consuming work that she finds meditative. A single piece can take 80 hours to complete. Her drawings are featured on cards, calendars and prints.
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- Funding provided by:
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Additional Support Provided By:
U.S. Bank
The Jackson Foundation
The Roundhouse Foundation
Fran and John von Schlegell
