Is Music the Language of the Universe? with Daniel Levitin

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🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Chuck the brain remains a frontier.
0:02.0	Yes it does.
0:03.0	Greater than the universe itself.
0:05.0	You said that?
0:07.0	Wow, this must have been a really good show.
0:09.0	I love the recipe of all the ways music can not only work with our moods but work with our
0:14.8	emotional and physical health on Star Talk special edition.
0:18.8	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:23.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:28.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:32.0	This is Star Talk. Neil Degrass Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist
0:39.3	and I got with me Chuck nice Chuck how you doing me? Hey Neil all right okay this is stark talk special edition
0:45.0	and if I've got you for start talk special edition we also get Gary that's right
0:50.1	in this edition Gary or Riley is gonna take us in Gary'Reilly is going to take us in.
0:53.4	Gary, what do you have to tell us?
0:54.8	Generally speaking, music is a pleasure.
0:57.7	We appreciate the artistry and enjoy the performance.
1:01.4	Music can transport us to another time and place, alter our emotional
1:06.6	state. Now ask yourself what throws an audience into a trance or a performer into a flow state.
1:14.8	Why do we get earworms?
1:17.0	They're nasty little rascals and they're annoying.
1:21.6	They are just some of music's gifts. The ancient Greeks knew way back when that music has the power to heal.
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