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Eyes and Minds Keep Moving
Do you realize that we can never keep our eyes really still? In fact, part of what makes an optical illusion happen is the rapid, often imperceptible movements of our eyes. It’s actually that part of our inner ear that senses movement and position (the labyrinth) and...
Young and Old Share the Surprise
One of the most well-known optical illusions of all time is this old lady/young lady picture. Which do you see first – the old one or the young? They’re both there. Hint: the necklace of the young woman is the mouth of the old one; the nose of the old lady is the...
How Smart Is Your Right Foot?
If you’ve tried patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time and failed that challenge, you’re not alone. Try this one, offered in the Boomer Yearbook: While sitting in a chair, lift your right foot off the floor and start it circling clockwise. Got...
Don’t Fret About What You Don’t See
“Don’t let it irk you if you don’t see a particular phenomenon, says vision scientist Michael Bach. For many illusions, there’s a percentage of people with perfectly normal vision who just don’t get it, Bach explains, often for reasons currently unknown. Look again...
Mind Trip #68: The Hollywood Myth
When we look at celebrities on magazine covers they always look amazing. In fact, we begin to think we must have the worst genes ever! The Hollywood Stars always look beautiful, sexy, and perfect. Well, there is a little secret that you might want to know about. A...
Mind Trip of the Week #67: How ads are made to look perfect
How many of you have looked at an advertisement and thought "This can't be real! My _____ never looks like that!". Well you are right. There are many tricks of the trade that help to get that perfect looking product and we are going to share some of them with you....
Mind Trip of the Week #66: Mental Cornucopia
Periodically we like to show you some of the neat things that are floating around the internet. Some of these things make our brains hurt, or make us laugh, or are just really cool. So we hope you enjoy them as much as we did. 1. Floating Boat - it looks so real! 2....
Mind Trip of the Week # 65: 21 grams
How many of you heard that the human soul weighs 21 grams? This came from a doctor in the early 1900's - Dr. Duncan MacDugall - who weighed six patients who were dying and determined that within a few moments of death each person lost 21 grams. I know you think that...
Mind Trip of the Week #64: scarmbled letetrs
Reading that was fun wasn't it? I always enjoy seeing clear examples of how our brain can process information so quickly that even when you substitute numbers for letters it still makes sense of the words. But…when I did more research on the subject I found this: 1) A...
Mind Trip of the Week # 63: Conundrum of Choice
I first saw Barry Schwartz's Ted Talk on the Paradox of Choice and was really intrigued with the idea that too many choices can be debilitating and decrease our happiness. But yet I could relate to what he was talking about. How many times have you left a store...
Mind Trip of the Week # 62: Change your Brain’s Image of Pain
We know what you are thinking (because that's what we do!) - You are thinking these binoculars are backwards. You are not supposed to look through the big ends because that would make objects smaller, not larger, and it would defeat the whole purpose of having...
Mind Trip of the Week #61: It’s all in the Hands
This Mind Trip is all about a fun physical feat that you can pull on your friends, family, and colleagues. I will warn you that it does take some practice to make it look really really good and real.