Category: Perception
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Changing perception. [Crazy]
Things change. Many people are afraid of change. But if you think it is something you may count on, then it looks like comfort. [Madison's bridges] Death is the end of life. Many people are afraid of death. We think death as a scary skeleton with a scythe. But if you think death as a wonderful…
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Perception. Being inside. Being outside. A comet's tail...
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has sent back some amazing photos as it approaches comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet and prepares to land on its surface. But we have a question: Where's the tail? Gerhard Schwehm, former manager of the Rosetta mission, tells Popular Science that the tail as we see it from Earth looks very…
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Akinetopsia. Time stopping. Feeling the Cosmos. [Time as a prerequisite for Existence]
It started as a headache, but soon became much stranger. Simon Baker entered the bathroom to see if a warm shower could ease his pain. “I looked up at the shower head, and it was as if the water droplets had stopped in mid-air”, he says. “They came into hard focus rapidly, over the course…
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Chickens. Chaos. Order.
The unusual arrangement of cells in a chicken's eye constitutes the first known biological occurrence of a potentially new state of matter known as "disordered hyperuniformity," according to researchers from Princeton University and Washington University in St. Louis. Research in the past decade has shown that disordered hyperuniform materials have unique properties when it comes…
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Close your eyes. Pay attention.
Attention is what steers your perception. But attention is a limited resource. If you do not attent to something you cannot be aware of it. But you can attend an event without being aware of it! (1) Being aware of what you see. Or focusing on your internal thoughts? Most choose the first. But is it…
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