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b'How Grief Rewires The Brain\\nBeing a human can be a wonderful thing. We\\u2019re social creatures, craving strong bonds with family and friends. Those relationships can be the most rewarding parts of life.\\nBut having strong relationships also means the possibility of experiencing loss. Grief is one of the hardest things people go through in life. Those who have lost a loved one know the feeling of overwhelming sadness and heartache that seems to well up from the very depths of the body.\\nTo understand why we feel the way we do when we grieve, the logical place to turn is to the source of our emotions: the brain. A new book explores the neuroscience behind this profound human experience.\\nIra speaks to Mary-Frances O\\u2019Connor, author of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss, a neuroscientist, about adjusting to life after loss.\\n\\n\\xa0\\nMidwest Aims To Add Large Indoor Animal Farms, Despite Concerns\\nLegislation and programs in states like Missouri and Nebraska are paving the way to welcome large livestock operations by limiting local control over the facilities. Some rural residents worry about the potential pollution and decreased quality of life that will bring.In Cooper County, Missouri, CAFOs are a controversial topic.\\nSusan Williams asked to meet in a small local library to talk about it, hoping that there wouldn\\u2019t be anyone around. Even in this quiet atmosphere, she\\u2019s nervous about people overhearing the conversation.\\n\\u201cI just don\\u2019t want the whole town to hear me,\\u201d she said.\\nConcentrated animal feed operations, commonly called CAFOs, are large animal facilities that hold thousands of head of livestock. Iowa leads the Midwest in the number of CAFOs with about 4,000 of them. However, in recent years, laws and programs have paved the way for CAFOs to operate in other Midwestern states, including Missouri and Nebraska.\\nThat\\u2019s worrying residents like Williams, a retired elementary school principal and a farmland owner from Clarksburg, Missouri. Back in 2018, a large hog operation called Tipton East planned on moving in less than a mile away from her house. The size of the operation, about 8,000 hogs, concerned her, especially since she grew up with a small hog farm.\\n\\u201cJust the smell and the waste that you had was tremendous with that,\\u201d she said. \\u201cAnd I couldn\\u2019t imagine what it would be like with that many hogs.\\u201d\\nRead the rest on sciencefriday.com\\n\\n\\xa0\\nBlending The Sounds Of Climate Change With Appalachian Music\\nDaniel Bachman is an acclaimed musician, known for his unique blend of Appalachian-inspired folk music and meditative drones. But, for his latest album, titled Almanac Behind, he wanted to try something a little different.\\nBachman lives in central Virginia, which has recently experienced multiple extreme weather events influenced by climate change. Unusually heavy snow in January 2022 caused power outages and trapped drivers in their cars on highways. Later in the year, intense rainfall led to downed power lines and flooding. And wildfires are becoming increasingly common in the Appalachian region.\\n\\u201cI had the idea to document everything that we experienced through the end of this recording process,\\u201d he said. With the help of family and friends, Bachman gathered field recordings of these sounds of climate change, and weaved them together with the banjo and guitar.\\n\\u201cIt did feel like I was working collaboratively with non-human partners,\\u201d he said. \\u201cIt makes me feel better to work with these forces, instead of trying to constantly push them away.\\u201d\\nBachman also talks about his work as an independent scholar, and how the traditions of Appalachian folklore influenced his view of the album as a climatological historical document.\\n\\n\\xa0\\nTranscripts for each segment will be available the week after the show airs on\\xa0sciencefriday.com.'