Unnatural Acts that can improve your thinking: inattentional blindness
Inattentional blindness is an inability to perceive something that is within one’s direct perceptual field because one is attending to something else. The term was coined by psychologists Arien Mack...
View ArticleWhat is deja vu?
Via HowStuffWorks The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, “already seen.” Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that...
View ArticleMermaids: Why they really are a myth – Part 2
Part 1 of this 3 part series can be found here. Un-evolvable via The Soap Box In a previous blog concerning the Discovery Networks docu-drama Mermaids: The Body Found I discussed how it isn’t possible...
View ArticleAlice in Wonderland Syndrome
via examiner.com Alice-in-Wonderland-Syndrome, or AIWS, is a perceptual disorder where objects or people may seem to be out of proportion, different in size than they should be, colored strangely, or...
View ArticleMindscapes: First man to hear people before they speak
I am very fascinated by mysterious medical conditions – especially conditions affecting the mind and perception. I’ve never heard of the condition explored in the following article from New Scientist....
View ArticleThe terrors of sleep paralysis
By Ami Angelowicz via TEDEducation (YouTube). View full lesson: The terrors of sleep paralysis – Ami Angelowicz Imagine you’re fast asleep and then suddenly awake. You want to move but can’t, as if...
View Article5 Things I’ve noticed about… AIDS Denialism
by The Locke via The Soap Box AIDS Denialism. Despite all the we know about HIV and AIDS from the many years of research into it in hopes of one day finding a cure for it, there are still people out...
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