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Introducing Physical Capital: Swimming

Human Resources by Sony Music

Oct 17, 202318:09Society & Culture

Why do we swim? It’s not new, we’ve been swimming for 10,000 years… apparently. But why? We don’t live in the water and so what draws us to it? In this first episode of the podcast we explore the history of humans in the...

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