Episode 687 • • 2:51:34 - 2:54:31
687: Cyber Caliphate
EU Energy Union, Russian Gas and Phantom Words Experiment
Russia informed the EU that it will shift its gas transit completely to Turkey, bypassing Ukraine and complicating the proposed EU "Energy Union." The hosts then conduct a "Phantom Words" audio experiment to demonstrate how the brain constructs meaning from random noise. They use the experiment to show how listeners can be influenced by what they are told they are hearing.