Is My Red Is Your Red?

The Box of Oddities by John Elliott and Kat Walls

Aug 5, 202635:10Comedy

What if your brain suddenly decided that words had colors? In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro dive into one of neuroscience's strangest documented phenomena: a woman who suffered a traumatic brain inj...

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