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Jul 2021
51m 25s

Gender in Sports with Joanna Harper and ...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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How does gender impact performance? Neil deGrasse Tyson dives into the archives w/ Gary O’Reilly & Chuck Nice to look at gender in sports with neuroscientist Heather Berlin PhD, and Joanna Harper, medical physicist and transgender athlete researcher. 
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