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Joan As Police Woman: The Magic (The Science of Transcendence with Maria Popova)

The Magic: What Science Can Tell Us About the Spellbinding Power of Music

By Sing For Science

5:00 AM EDT on June 14, 2023

NYC Legend Joan As Police Woman (Joan Wasser) talks about her 2011 song “The Magic” with influential writer and science historian, Maria Popova (The Marginalian / Brain Pickings). We talk about measuring how music can transport us, the “magic” of making connections, pattern recognition, wonderment as a discipline, double dutch and so much more in this incredibly awe inspiring episode.

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