If you look really carefully you can see yourself in the background of this video. A real astronaut, on a real space station making a YouTube video. It is just one of several that he completed during his time in space. A genuine hero!
Category:Just For Fun
A Nice Illusion…
. I have watched this a couple of times and I am still not entirely convinced I can see how he does it. It is a very good illusion. What do you think? [For what it’s worth, I am fairly sure that it is not just a camera trick.]
Chucky D…
It’s been a while since Charles Darwin has featured and such things should not be allowed to continue. I watched the BBC Horrible Histories Prom from the Royal Albert Hall, which was my first encounter with the theatre group, and I thought it was wonderful. I was delighted to find this little historical gem on YouTube.
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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My Blackberry’s Not Working…
This sort of thing normally makes me cringe but I think they get it absolutely right. Lovely word play.