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COVER STORY
Art and The Brain

Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer is a jazz pianist and composer as well as an accomplished cognitive scientist . His studies of the brain and the body actively shape how he perceives and makes music. Produced by Simon Rentner.
Go to Vijay Iyer's Official Site
Go to a site about Vijay's Fieldwork project
Go to Red Giant Records
Go to Pi Recordings

Brainwave Chick
Artist and multi-media professor Paras Kaul is less interested in how our brain experiences art, and more concerned about harnessing the mysteries of what's inside the brain. She uses mental electricity itself as the raw material for her work. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.
Go to Paras Kaul's website
Go to Mark Applebaum’s site
Read Jonathan Mitchell's work

Storyteller
Jonathan Mitchell is autistic, and chronicles his condition through fiction. His first novel is a satire of the world of special ed. Produced by Tamar Brott.
Go to Autism Arts.com
Go to a site about the arts and mental health
Go to a site about the arts and mental health

SPECIAL GUEST
Aryeh Lev Stollman
Aryeh Lev Stollman is a neuroradiologist at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He's the author of the novels The Far Euphrates and the Illuminated Soul. His book of short stories, The Dialogues of Time and Entropy, will be published in February 2003.
Go to Aryeh Lev Stollman's official site






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Design for the Real World
Graphic Designer Steven Heller looks at the one piece of clothing that has become part of everyone’s standard uniform -- the T-shirt.



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