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Presenting: Twenty Thousand Hertz

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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Why Accidental Backmasking Sounds Persuasive

Ashley Hamer explains pareidolia, syllable ambiguity, and why degraded or reversed audio often seems to form words.

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