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May 2021
51m 21s

The Science of Learning with Heather Ber...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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How do our brains learn? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Dave Bakker learn about learning at the Pocketlab Science Is Cool Virtual Unconference with neuroscientist Heather Berlin. 
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