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SSS 2009-05-21

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Can you name those notes? Probably not. Perhaps one in ten thousand speakers of European languages has perfect pitch - the ability to recognize a note without having hea

SSS 2009-05-22

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SSS 2008-11-10

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SSS 2009-05-13

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SSS 2010-11-17

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SSS 2010-08-09

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