_MG_4966 by gidlark (cc by-sa)
"Yes, citing these in an argument will annoy everyone. But what fun!" storybored posted "100 Little Ideas that Explain how the Human World works," including such items as "Bizarreness Effect," "Skill Compensation," and "Curse of Knowledge."
Le Jour ni l’Heure 6327 : Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1617-1682, Saint Pierre en larmes, c. 1650-1655, musée des Beaux-Arts de Bilbao, lundi 29 mai 2017, 12:37:42 by Renaud Camus (cc by)
In Ask Metafilter, jeszac asks What media hit you differently the second time around? "Have you had experiences of returning to scenes or moments within texts or other media with new eyes or understanding? What shifted both in your interpretation and in your life that allowed for that new interpretation?"
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? by Bistrosavage (cc by)
The question of what information the visual system gets right before the eye movement is, quite literally, a chapter in my dissertation ...
Mefite Making You Bored For Science has some very interesting observations in the thread on saccadic masking (and other eye/brain illusions) in which we discover our visual systems blatantly lie to us all the time. (Also see Rhaomi's comment about the sci-fi novel that employs saccadic exploitation by space aliens!)
Tackling the important questions: What is this voice saying?
BIG BOAT, small boat by Kevin Dinkel (cc by-sa)
If it's staying still, and just getting bigger, you need to figure out how to not die.
Dreadnought breaks down the four perceptual tricks that can lure an unsuspecting boater to their death.
talking again by mediamolecule (cc by-nc-nd)
From The Vaults:
How do you fake American?, 2008
... what if you're not an English speaker, and you want to fake-speak English, or more precisely, American? How does it sound?
And more: Imitation English, 2003
How does one speak "pretend English"?, 2005
Linguaesthetics, 2006
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