Ozarks At Large

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Sunday, November 10, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the effort to create Nerdies, a project designed to give young people not interested in sports a place to explore other hobbies and passions. We'll also visit a piece of land in Fayetteville that will soon be a teaching farm, letting young students get a hands-on approach to growing and eating healthy foods. Plus Christian Howes, one of the most critically acclaimed jazz musicians performing talks to Robert Ginsburg about Howes's upcoming concert at Walton Arts Center. And what's really happening in our brain when we listen to that music we really like again . . . and again . . .and again. We'll talk briefly to Lisa Margulis about her new book On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind.
Forty-five members of the 431st Civil Affairs Battalion of the U.S. Army Reserve will be inside the University of Arkansas' Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Center through Thursday, training in basic agricultural practices and techniques.
The University of Arkansas Radio Frequency Identification Research Center is celebrating its seventh anniversary today with the unveiling of design plans for a new and larger facility in Fayetteville’s south industrial district.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers tells us about the interesting events happening at public libraries in the northwest Arkansas.
The organization that has been offering art classes and art therapy since 1983 is now a non-profit.To listen to some more of this conversation, click here.
Columnist Wayne Bell from www.fayettevilleflyer.com discusses guilty pleasures we all indulge in.
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