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Oct 2024
51m 52s

Is Music the Language of the Universe? w...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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Did early humans sing before they could talk? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice discover how music helps us recall memories, the Singing Neanderthal Theory, the default mode network, and how music can be used as medicine with neuroscientist and author, Daniel Levitin. 
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