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I Love Optical Illusions, But These Are SHOCKING. I Will Never Trust My Brain Again... Our brains have developed incredible tactics and coping mechanisms to help us make sense of the complex world around us. But some parts of our highly adaptive minds aren't perfect and can be exposed through carefully crafted illusions. In this list, you had the luxury of knowing the images and gifs are actually illusions. Reaction Effect in Full Screen Warning: include(/kunden/homepages/29/d426607373/htdocs/vivalagames/play//gamevar.txt) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/29/d426607373/htdocs/vivalagames/fullscreen.php on line 3 Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/kunden/homepages/29/d426607373/htdocs/vivalagames/play//gamevar.txt' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php5') in /homepages/29/d426607373/htdocs/vivalagames/fullscreen.php on line 3

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Time to Ditch Our Profit-Hungry Corporate Economy: Here's What the Future Could Look Like Instead June 10, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The economy was bound to tank. Not just because greedy corporations rigged the system or because government helped grease the wheels for them.

Socratic Electronics Socratic Electronics by Tony R. Kuphaldt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Take me to the worksheets now! Copyright © 2003 - 2009, Tony R. Sound Types FindSounds Search the Web for Sounds What types of sounds can be found on the Web using FindSounds? Ginger Seal Shunned By Peers Be gone, ugly. Gone gone. Prepare for your heart to break. Nicole Krauss’s Beautiful Letter to Van Gogh on How to Break the Loop of Our Destructive Patterns “Feeling helpless and confused in the face of random, unpatterned events, we seek to order them and, in so doing, gain a sense of control over them,” the great psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom wrote in his magnificent meditation on uncertainty and our search for meaning. But as our terror of losing control compels us to grasp for order and certainty, we all too often end up creating patterns that ultimately don’t serve us, then repeat those patterns under the illusion of control. These patterns of belief — about who we are, about who others are, about how the world works — come to shape our behavior, which in turn shapes our reality, creating a loop that calls to mind physicist David Bohm’s enduring wisdom: “Reality is what we take to be true.

Looking At Tears Under A Microscope Reveals An Amazing Fact One day Rose-Lynn Fisher wondered if her tears of grief would look different compared to her tears of joy, so she began to explore them up close under a microscope. She studied 100 different tears and found that basal tears (the ones that our body produces to lubricate our eyes) are drastically different from the tears that happen when we are chopping onions. The tears that come about from hard laughter aren’t even close to the tears of sorrow. Like a drop of ocean water each tiny tear drop carries a microcosm of human experience. Her project is called The Topography of Tears. Tears from laughing until crying

15 Awesome Chemistry GIFs You don’t need to watch Breaking Bad to know that chemistry is pretty awesome. Below, we explore our favorite 15 chemistry GIFs and the science behind them (when we could figure it out): Melting Metal With Magnets The Science: The copper wire has a significant amount of AC electricity running through it, causing it to act like a really strong electromagnet. In the metal slug, eddy currents form due to the magnetic field the copper wire is causing while the copper wire has high frequency AC flowing through it.

Wallpaper Videos See the universe come to life via animations, scientific visualizations, expert commentary, and more. 10 great science fiction novels that have been banned @djscruffy: And that's why you're a heathen and should be burned at the stake. @djscruffy: In defense of public schools, I would suggest that the reason many of these books are challenged so often is that they're frequently included in school curriculums and libraries. I grew up in a state that, according to these links, engaged in book-burning less than a decade before my birth. That makes me shudder. But I'm also the child of a public school teacher and am familiar with my mother's and many of her peers' views on children's reading materials. Despite the generally conservative views in my community, my elementary school encouraged me to read A Wrinkle in Time and The Giver and Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret.

Something Broken? Learn To Fix Anything With These 4 Websites No one likes it when their things break. It might be something big, like your TV or your car, or something smaller, like a leaky faucet or a cracked floor tile. You can spend hundreds of dollars to have a professional help you out, or you can learn how to fix it yourself for the cost of some tools and a couple hours of work. Which would you rather do? Be Safe! Before you go trying to fix all of your problems by yourself, make sure that you’re making safe decisions.

Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives of an unknown ‘amateur’ photographer for $380 at his local auction house. John began developing his new collection of photographs, some 100,000 negatives in total, that had been abandoned in a storage locker in Chicago before they ended up at the auction house. It became clear these were no ordinary street snaps of 1950s & 60s Chicago and New York and so John embarked on a journey to find out who was behind the photographs and soon discovered her name: Vivien Maier.

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