Douglas B. Clark
Douglas Clark is a copywriter and speechwriter with a healthy appetite for all things digital. He has more than 15 years' agency and independent experience in corporate and marketing communication, and his clients come from diverse industries, specializing in anything from financial products and toothpaste to software for the visualization of computational fluid dynamics data. Among his clients are Accenture, American Express, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Hewlett-Packard, and Panasonic.
Sitting around the Thanksgiving table in a stupor, at least one relative is bound to haul out the explanation that the tryptophan found in turkey is to blame. But is it really? Check out the video panel at right for the chemistry behind the holiday bird and the near comatose state it seems to induce.