As promised, another brilliant video from the Symphony of Science guys. I think that the tune is better in this one. What do you think?
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Retired Schoolmaster living in Wiltshire and Vendee France
Counting Dilemma…
I told 5C today, after we had watched a video about the brain (which I will also post here soon), that everything we see, hear or otherwise experience is generated by our brains and cannot always be trusted. The scientific method allows us to determine what evidence can be trusted by filtering out the biases that …
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Neuroscience & Magic…
Whilst listening to The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe on my way down to my house in France, I was particularly pleased that they interviewed Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde. They are a married couple who work at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, where they study visual, sensory and cognitive neuroscience. They are …
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An Honest Thief…
Seeing May Or May Not Be Believing…
I have posted a few times here about how our brains are not to be trusted (such as this post or this post.) I was sent this amazing illusion today via Professor Bruce Hood which he found on Brusspup’s YouTube channel (which also has several other incredible videos.) This is not a camera trick but a genuine quirk of brain function. What we …
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Rube Goldberg Machine…
A Rube Goldberg machine is an unnecessarily complicated machine designed to perform a simple action. It is similar in concept to a Heath Robinson contraption, named after a British cartoonist working in the early 20th Century. There is a good comparison of similar ideas from other nationalities at the appropriate Wikipedia page. I have another post …
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Don’t Trust Your Eyes…
Seeing is believing. Or is it? I enjoyed the two pictures below from Richard Wiseman’s blog and thought I would post them here. The first one is a cleverly cut-away portrait, whilst the second is an animated gif image. Click on the image below to open it in a new window, then stare at the black …
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DNA and Genes…
This post was written by James after his successful Radley Scholarship exams. Genes are the sub-structures of DNA. DNA is a molecule which stores the information for the making of all the proteins that a cell will need. Usually, a single gene only codes for a single protein. A DNA molecule consists of two strands …
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Small Blue Dot…
Look at the picture above. Do you see the small blue dot in the band of pale brown to the right? Do you know what that is? Go on guess! I will give you a clue. This photograph was taken by a NASA spaceship called Voyager some time between February the 14th and June the …
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My Blackberry’s Not Working…
This sort of thing normally makes me cringe but I think they get it absolutely right. Lovely word play.