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October 7, 2011
It's time again for fruit and veggie carving season. And what could be better than a carved brain. This time it's out of a watermelon.
Enjoy!
-via Neatorama-
May 2, 2011
When everyone thought extrasensory perception had disappeared into the same embarrassing past as phrenology it came back with a vengeance. In a recent article by Daryl Bem titled Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect evidence was…
May 2, 2011
And you can too! All you have to do is win this gorilla costume. This is guaranteed to work in a women's locker room*. I can't vouch for its success rate in men's locker rooms since.. well... I don't really have to sneak in there. Anyway, all you have to do to have a chance of winning this…
April 21, 2011
-via neatorama and boingboing-
Someone want to build me this table?
April 20, 2011
I was digging through some of my old blog posts and had almost totally forgot about this artwork I commissioned for the blog when I first started back on blogger. Check it out and then I'll fill you in on what I've been up to and why I've been so sparse over the last many months.
I stopped…
April 19, 2011
Or forced perspective.
I suspect this is more sensitive to viewpoint than the previous post.
-via BoingBoing-
April 19, 2011
These installations (or more precisely drawings on the floor and ceiling) take advantage of our use of textures to perceive a third dimension/depth out of monocular cues. I'm curious how effective they are from different viewpoints. Perhaps there are some accidental views that make the texture…
February 28, 2011
There's a great blog called ionpsych being run by Dan Simons (of Invisible Gorilla fame). The posts are all by graduate students in a science writing for public consumption class. I'm glad people are starting to teach us overly technical scientists how to communicate in graduate school. I'm not…
February 26, 2011
So freakin' cool. Although... I can't even solve a real one - much less one that isn't visually as obvious.
-via Neatorama-
February 26, 2011
Have I dominated you yet?
This is why I walk around staring at people - World Domination.
For the study, participants watched a computer screen while a series of colored ovals appeared. Below each oval were blue, green, and red dots; they were supposed to look away from the oval to the dot with…
December 14, 2010
Just in case you're looking for something to write on your course evaluations. Or perhaps you are the instructor and you hope you don't get something like this (especially if you are young!)
Via Texts From Last Night:
I had to do a class evaluation today & the girl beside me didn't fill in any…
December 13, 2010
-Via Eurekalert-
Los Angeles, CA (December 7, 2010) Most people feel chills and shivers in response to music that thrills them, but some people feel these chills often and others feel them hardly at all. People who are particularly open to new experiences are most likely to have chills in response…
December 13, 2010
Just be warned - there's a teensy (tinsy, teensie?) weensy bit of crude language.
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
December 8, 2010
I now believe.
-Via Surviving the World-
(I really wish I could have just presented the first image and sent you there for the rest - but I'm too lazy to do image editing...)
December 6, 2010
Or is it a 'Holiday' miracle now? Anyway...
Finally, Congress passes a piece of legislation that citizens on both the right and left side of the political spectrum can get behind. Late yesterday, Congress approved the CALM (Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation) Act, which "requires TV…
December 6, 2010
Interesting...
More recent research has revealed that chimpanzees and even dogs can catch yawns from those around them, including from humans, but little is known about why we yawn and why it appears to be so infectious.
Psychologists at the University of Stirling, however, have now discovered…
December 5, 2010
Enjoy this article. It's some thrilling reading!
Brilliant!
-via... well I'm not really sure what this is-
December 2, 2010
Find out right here via the Christian Science Monitor:
For many years, the National Football League has given the Wonderlic aptitude test to rookie players. The test has 50 questions with a 12-minute time limit. Put three minutes on the clock and try our shortened version of the test, created with…
December 2, 2010
This (I guess?) accidental view of a San Francisco house really shows how steep the hills are. -Via BoingBoing-
"HÃ¥kan Dahlström got this delightful shot of one of San Francisco's steeper hills, turning his camera so that the road (and not the houses) were at level to convey the extent of the…
December 2, 2010
It seems that there are some cool pictures/film floating around showing some of the results of the wacky shit that the military did back in the day in order to win wars in some very very unconventional ways. Here's something NPR dug up:
The Army had a few periods of experimenting with LSD and…
December 1, 2010
Just to get you ready for tomorrow's sports post (are you smarter than a quarterback?)
Athletes' Experiences of the Psychological Effects of Poor Coaching
The purpose of this study was to describe the psychological effects of poor coaching reported by collegiate, professional and semi-professional…
December 1, 2010
This group can build a 3D model from millions of flickr images from any city/location/public restroom. Amazing!
Scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a method for creating 3D models of pretty much anything in pretty much no time.
Using a sexy algorithm and the…
December 1, 2010
I love creative design. Here begins a new theme on Omni Brain.
Do you only have a small cabinet and need to fit in as many drinking tools as possible? Do you want to get sticky booze all over your house? This is for you!
-via gizmodo-
December 1, 2010
Maybe it's because I just had a stiff drink - but I absolutely love this thing. The art is cool, bicycles are great, and engineering for fun interests me. Maybe it's not the bourbon...
-Via Neatorama-