February 2012
69 posts
Teller Reveals His Secrets →
jtotheizzoe:
Have magicians been inadvertently studying neuroscience for ages? Teller, of Penn & Teller, weighs in:
“Magic is an art, as capable of beauty as music, painting or poetry. But the core of every trick is a cold, cognitive experiment in perception: Does the trick fool the audience? A magician’s data sample spans centuries, and his experiments have been replicated often enough to...
That's why I hate meeting you
Rain is drizzling down our faces as we walk. The soft blur of everything. The cold stillness in the air. The sharper green and brown of trees. The disappearing grey clouds. The passing cars sprayed us little when they rode upon pools of water rain created.
My clothes are wet. Your jacket is practically dripping.
The umbrella’s too small for both of us, you see? Don’t try too hard to...
How Does Perfume Work?
fakescience:
Why Do Cats Purr?
fakescience:
It’s a good example that 99% of meeting someone nice is in showing up, is in preventing yourself from overanalyzing and instead just being with them in that particular place at that particular time. That it’s never as difficult to connect with someone as it seems in your head. That love is not this impossible thing reserved for the clever — it’s the for the awkward and embarrassed and the...
tastefullyoffensive:
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