Tag: senses
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Sounds, language, space, hidden knowledge…
Ηave you ever wondered why most natural languages invariably use the same spatial attributes — high versus low — to describe auditory pitch? Or why, throughout the history of musical notation, high notes have been represented high on the staff? According to a team of neuroscientists from Bielefeld University and the Max Planck Institute for…
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Smells, senses, science…
It used to be thought that human noses could only detect around 10,000 smells, although many scientists thought that was probably a bit too low. A new study suggests that number is much higher–that humans can distinguish among 1 trillion different scents. (1) Even though we may not be able to name them, the “study”…
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Light graffiti, senses and the inexistence of “real”.
After bright lights fade in the dark, our eyes can still see them as streaks, smears, and dots. Engineer Phillip Burgess drew inspiration from this “bug” of human vision to build the NeoPixel Painter: a meter-long strip of multicolor LEDs controlled by a palm-size computer. When swept across a camera’s view during a long exposure,…
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Homer, satellites, optical illusions…
Amazon does not get greener in dry seasons, even though this is what the initial data from satellites showed. A correction made by scientists who analyzed the respective data revealed that it was all due to an optical illusion. (1, 2) In the beginning we had our own eyes and nothing more. Then we developed satellites to…
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Dogmatic Religion = Dogmatic Science = Belief in senses!
A belief in the literal Biblical version of creation may boil down, in part, to personality. A new study suggests that people who believe in creationism are more likely to prefer to take in information via their senses versus via intuition. In contrast, religious believers who see the Bible’s creation story as symbolic tend to…
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