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Something a little different today from writer, musician, and comedian El Cordova.

She took the TED 2024 stage to share a poem she wrote about the Big Bang and follows

it with a musical performance of a particularly timely piece called Carl Sagan. It's a song about connection and how to find it beyond the infinite scroll of social media.

This is all coming up after the break.

And now our TED Talk of the day.

Hey everybody, I'm El.

If I look familiar to you, it's probably because at some point you scrolled across one of my many

goofy videos about fonts or AI or the planets or whatever one of the nerdy

sundries I've put out there.

I am a literature person by trade and by training,

but I love to nerd out about science.

And one of the questions that keeps me up at night

is what happened before the Big Bang. questions that

keeps me up at night is what happened before the Big Bang.

So I wrote a poem about it with an assist

from science communicator Hank Green, who was talking about that very topic and he sort of said in passing this line which really struck me as

simple but powerful.

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