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This American Life - 214: Family Physics
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214: Family Physics

This American Life

12/19/21

61m

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We take the stately laws of physics—laws which mathematicians and scientists have spent centuries discovering and verifying—and apply them to the realm of human relationships, to see if they shed useful light on our daily lives.

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