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In late 2016, American diplomats in Havana, Cuba started hearing a mysterious buzzing sound, followed by debilitating symptoms. On this week\\u2019s On the Media, why the government now disputes theories that it was a secret Russian weapon. Plus, what the electric hum of your refrigerator and the uncanny hearing ability of pigeons reveal about the world we live in.

1.\\xa0Adam Entous, staff writer at The New York Times, Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer at The New Yorker, and\\xa0Robert Bartholomew, sociologist and author of Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria,\\xa0on the investigation into the mysterious affliction that spread across the globe.\\xa0Listen.

2. Jennifer Munson,\\xa0OTM Technical Director, and Nasir Memon,\\xa0New York University professor of computer science and engineering, on the obscure\\xa0technology called\\xa0electrical network frequency analysis, or ENF, and the world of audio forensics.\\xa0Listen.

3.\\xa0Robert Krulwich [@rkrulwich],\\xa0co-creator and former co-host of Radiolab, and John Hagstrum, a\\xa0geophysicist\\xa0emeritus at the\\xa0U.S. Geological Survey,\\xa0on the mysterious avian disappearance that rocked world headlines. Listen.\\xa0