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For thousands of years, people were able to live in sync with their biological clock. In our modern world, however, people rely on alarm clocks. Genetically programmed cell interactions stipulate when we sleep and when we rise, and most of society is up too early. Sleep deprivation is linked to sleep disruptions, depression, diabetes and even dementia. Chronobiology research and development will help us live healthier lives and respond to medical...

Traces the art of clockmaking from the era of handcrafting to present-day automation.

This episode of Masterworks presents Yves Tanguy's 1929 painting, "At 4 O'Clock in the Summer, Hope." Hear analysis of this work by an art historian and see this painting and other paintings by the artist. The narrator presents the works of other artists for comparison and to help the viewer gain deeper insight in to this masterpiece of painting.

Globe-trotting Christine wakes up one ordinary day to find that her biological clock has gone off with a vengeance. But for a commitment-phobe on the wrong side of 40, the road to motherhood is strewn with bedlam, calamity and smoked out eggs.

Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a Lark City, Pennsylvania schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a Kinney College, northern Illinois coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young Southern California widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, Willa, remarried and now a Tuscon, Arizona reisdent, yearns to be a grandmother, yet the prospect...