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Optical Illusions

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I’ve always thought optical illusions were fun. There’s a great piece in the current Scientific American that gets into the neuroscience of illusion and while it may be kind of heavy reading, the examples are worth looking at.  Some of them will blow your mind, others are just funny.  But you can’t believe that you can’t make your mind resolve what you know is there vs. what you think you’re seeing. Continue reading

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