Episode #737
Tori Amos, Right Brain, Byrne
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Kurt Andersen talks with Tori Amos about her new career-retrospective box set. We'll offer a left-brain approach to Betty Edwards' classic Drawing On The Right Side of The Brain. And Kurt visits David Byrne in his studio in downtown New York, where the former leader of Talking Heads explains his strange new book of diagrams called Arboretum.
Tori Amos
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Tori Amos
She speaks in delicious metaphors. She's funny, self-aware and she doesn't hold back her opinions. But has singer-songwriter Tori Amos really been around long enough for a career—retrospective box set? She tells Kurt why women need to learn about mythological archetypes, and how becoming a mother has ...
Tale of Two Brains
Right-brained people are supposed to be artistic and spontaneous, while left-brainers are literal and analytical; in other words, Captain Kirk and Spock. This ubiquitous bit of pop science wisdom came out of Nobel Prize-winning neurology, and it spawned the bestseller Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. But does ...
Physics for Poets
People often depict scientists as coldly rational. Physicist Michael Salamon, who works at NASA's Universe Division, takes issue with that. He explains why Walt Whitman misunderstood the beauty of the universe, and why Maxwell's Equations are like a sexual experience. Produced by Lu Olkowski.
David Byrne
Chairs that look like DNA molecules made out of tinker-toys, corporate signs with hidden messages, and trees that diagram everything from the future of rock n' roll to the results of bad habits -- David Byrne has made them all. The former Talking Heads member spends most ...
Design for the Real World: Sheetrock
Home renovation guru Duo Dickinson sings the praises of the invisible stuff that's all around us. Literally. Produced by Alexis Shoenberg.





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