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

What science can tell us about the spellbinding power of music.

Photo of Joan As Police Woman by Lindsey Byrnes. Photo of Maria Popova by Allan Amato.

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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