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when you subscribe. So this week is particularly exciting for me from a music and the brain

perspective because tomorrow at city arts and lectures

in San Francisco, you can come and hear me talk to Charles Lim and hear the SF Jazz High School

All-Stars as we talk about improvisation and the brain. Charles is a pioneer of a number of

different types of surgeries to restore hearing, but also an expert in this idea of how music interacts in your brain, especially around jazz, right?

I know. It's super cool. So I'm super excited. So that's Tuesday, March 7. For those of those of you that live in the Bay Area, I think there's still a few tickets left. And the second episode of my new podcast, Cadence, is out now.

And in it, we talk about what are the universals in music.

And I'm really proud of that episode, too.

And so, of course, everything comes together.

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