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Music to your ears

Sam Mehr’s daughter was less than a day old when she starred in a video to demonstrate the calming effect of a lullaby, all in support of her dad’s research into the universal language of music.

Since then, more than 5000 people from 49 countries have listened to snippets of lullabies and three other song types as part of a study to see if they could

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