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cognitive hazard

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:19:54 GMT

clipped by: 15nanako6

Bandwagon effect - the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. Related to groupthink, herd behaviour, and manias. Carl Jung pioneered the idea of the collective unconscious which is considered by Jungian psychologists to be responsible for this cognitive bias.

Choice-supportive bias - the tendency to remember one’s choices as better than they actually were.

Illusion of control - the tendency for human beings to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes which they clearly cannot.

Neglect of probability - the tendency to completely disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty.

Tags: psychology

Neave.com Media Fun

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:02:54 GMT

clipped by: LindasHere55
clipper's remarks: Chris Pirillo is awesome..Flash Earth, virtual planetarium, constellations on off, imagination, fractal explorer, fractals, television channel hop, strobe, optical illusion, dandilion blow...microphone input, webcam amazing effects...what fun. classic games. space invaders tetras ticktacktoe. frogger,imbed on website, Fun Widgets on Neave's site.

Clip Source: chris.pirillo.com

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Tags: fun, chris pirillo, games, fractals

Can human consciousness survive without a brain?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:19:31 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: Why do you think there is such resistance to studies like yours?

Because we're pushing through the boundaries of science, working against assumptions and perceptions that have been fixed. A lot of people hold this idea that, well, when you die, you die; that's it. Death is a moment — you know you're either dead or alive. All these things are not scientifically valid, but they're social perceptions.How is technology challenging the perception that death is a moment?

Clip Source: www.time.com

Parnia and his colleagues at the Human Consciousness Project announced their first major undertaking: a 3-year exploration of the biology behind "out-of-body" experiences

When your heart stops beating, there is no blood getting to your brain. And so what happens is that within about 10 sec., brain activity ceases —as you would imagine. Yet paradoxically, 10% or 20% of people who are then brought back to life from that period, which may be a few minutes or over an hour, will report having consciousness. So the key thing here is, Are these real, or is it some sort of illusion?

if you look at the mind, consciousness, and the brain, the assumption that the mind and brain are the same thing is fine for most circumstances, because in 99% of circumstances we can't separate the mind and brain; they work at the exactly the same time. But then there are certain extreme examples, like when the brain shuts down, that we see that this assumption may no longer seem to hold true.

The rotating grid illusion

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:51:06 GMT

clipped by: rj3sp
clipper's remarks: A surprising optical illusion which is related to temporal aliasing, a visual phenomenon also known as the stroboscopic effect, which accounts for the fact that in video or motion pictures, wheels sometimes appear to be turning backwards.

Clip Source: blog.ted.com

Filmmaker and animator David O'Reilly (who came up with the concept for iHologram) has noticed an interesting property in this animated GIF:

Clip Source: www.davidoreilly.com

A large grid seen rotating at a certain speed will appear to group itself into smaller grids, spinning independently.

explaination

You are trying to capture a motion that is too fast for the framerate you’re using. In the case of a spinning wheel, what happens is that the wheel might turn, for example, 350 degrees between two frames but your eyes interpret it as -10 degrees. A similar thing happens with your grid. At the periphery, the lines move by more than one grid cell between two frames and the resulting visible motion is “snapped” to the smallest possible motion. The correct way to prevent such artifacts is to make sure that the shutter of the camera is open during the full interval between two frames, so that motion that is too fast gets blurred.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Temporal aliasing

Tags: optical, stroboscopic, grid, temporal aliasing

illusion of progress

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:41:05 GMT

clipped by: ThirdEyeContact
clipper's remarks: The progress lies instead in real, physical PRODUCTION of wealth, and improvement of the population's general welfare.

Clip Source: www.markjoyner.name

We could choose to simply "discuss" concepts and those discussions may result in nothing at all, no matter how well intentioned. Even worse, discussion without action fixates the mind on discussion and creates the easily accepted illusion of progress.

GM falls to 1950 levels; European sales stung

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:17:53 GMT

clipped by: rmowery
clipper's remarks: I really am debating buying this. If they would just have a whole line of hybrids and electrics ready to go in a year or two I would gobble up this stock. But right now they seem to be holding on to the illusion of gas/diesel vehicles. Not as bad as ford, but certainly they are not going the route of toyota.

Clip Source: www.marketwatch.com

GM falls to 1950 levels; European sales stung

Standard & Poor's places automaker's debt on CreditWatch negative

By Shawn Langlois, MarketWatch

Last update: 4:05 p.m. EDT Oct. 9, 2008

Comments: 187

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - General Motors Corp. shares, already reeling from the widening credit crisis that has crippled Wall Street, fell as much as 33% on Thursday, dropping to levels last seen in the springtime of 1950.

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Acrylic Glass Pool

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:01:13 GMT

clipped by: randyvild
clipper's remarks: This would make for a great music video!

Clip Source: popularemails.com

This is part of an abstract art museum in Japan. There are two clear acrylic glasses
about a foot apart and water is filled inside. The top surface is also filled with about 4 to 5 inches
of water so that it just look like water.
Music "Underwater" by Randy Vild's Orchestrations

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"Acrylic Glass Pool"

Tags: pool, glass, illusion, magician

"Kiplin' vs. Palin The Copybook Headings

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:10:09 GMT

clipped by: nchnted
clipper's remarks: This had more meat than I could fit in the clip. It's well worth reading. Why is "learning from past mistakes" so taboo in this country. Wouldn't life be easier if we didn't keep falling into the same pits that we just crawled out of?

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

How could it happen? That outraged question springs now to everyone’s lips. But from Dutch tulips to Californian dotcoms, great heists have happened and will again. No flight from reality is as sweet as the illusion that money grows on trees.

n the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,

By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul:

But though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”

If any question why we died,

Tell them, because our fathers lied.

I wonder, after the lying and the dead of the Bush Administration, in the midst of the wars, in the face of 760,000 lost jobs, is Palin’s offer of a “little bit of reality from Wasilla Main Street” enough?

When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,

The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Fun photography - souvenirs replace the real things for these shots

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:32:25 GMT

clipped by: pcmkrfn

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

London icon: Photographer Michael Hughes holds a souvenir model Big Ben in front of the real thing

Tourist hotspot: Hughes holds a souvenir Eiffel Tower in front of the site in Paris

American dream: A coffee cup showing the Statue of Liberty replaces the infamous landmark

Famous four: Holding the CD Abbey Road with Iain Macmillan's photo in front of the zebra crossing gives the impression The Beatles are there

Optical illusion: A souvenir mug showing the Victory Column, Berlin in front of the real thing in Germany

Surreal view: A souvenir fridge magnet of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

World in his hand: Hughes holds up a souvenir postcard of The Gateway of India in Mumbai

Mysterious site: A souvenir model Great Sphinx of Giza, in front of the historic statue in Eygpt

Building bridges: A souvenir model is held in front of Tower Bridge over the river Thames in London

Picture perfect: A postcard of Schoenbrunn, Austria in front of the stunning building

More picture nonsense..

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:06:50 GMT

clipped by: RossDouglas
clipper's remarks: Where will it end?

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

At a moment's glance this picture could be the real Big Ben.

But then you notice the hand below and the incredible optical illusion is revealed.

Tourist Michael Hughes today unveiled his extraordinary holiday snaps of the world's famous landmarks - perfectly blended with cheap souvenirs.

He has travelled to over 200 countries and has a collection of nearly 100 similar shots - but incredibly says he stumbled on the idea by accident.

Michael then takes up to 50 photographs with a wide angle lens on a digital camera until he has the ornament positioned in exact proportion to the landmark.

He arrives at the destination, visits the nearest souvenir and buys the cheapest souvenir.

He has photographed the Egyptian pyramids and Sphinx, London's red buses and the Berlin Brandenburg - all combined with their souvenirs.

Michael has released 20 of the best images in a book called Souvenirs published by graphic designers Fivefootsix based in London.

The real Americans

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:58:31 GMT

clipped by: lifecyce1898
clipper's remarks: It seems her #1 job is to continue the illusion that the ultimate elitist party, the party of CEO and wall street fat cats is really the party of average America disparagingly cast as Joe and Jane six pack, too ignorant and uneducated to notice the phoniness. Ignore the 100000000 bank account, 10 homes and 13 cars, McCain represents the working American. What a crock of sh**!!

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

As Sarah Palin "aw-shucks-ed" her way through Thursday's debate, she repeatedly played the one card that has become her stock in trade: She is a real American. Her rural roots, her lack of sophistication and worldliness, her bare bones education, her plain-spokenness, her moose hunting -- all of these seemed to brand her as a typical American, one of us us. She has even taken to calling herself Jane Sixpack.

This characterization, ludicrous as it may be in a country as diverse as ours, is more than a matter of political aesthetics. One of the most important components of our recent presidential elections is the redefinition -- actually the narrowing of the definition -- of what constitutes an American.

One of the first national icons was Daniel Boone -- uneducated, adventurous, a man of action rather than intellect who, in his buckskins, couldn't have been more different from the typical Englishman

Kiplin' Vs. Palin

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:23:02 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Repeat after me: pigs can’t fly. Repeat after me: if you don’t work you die. Repeat after me: fire will certainly burn.

Perhaps these truths seem self-evident. But let’s face it, the whole Wall Street debacle, with its cost of some $700 billion to generations of Americans, was based on the fathomless human ability to disregard facts and believe in cloud-cuckoo-land.

Risk no longer existed.

No flight from reality is as sweet as the illusion that money grows on trees.

Truth, in short, confronts delusion and utopia.

Palin, Mainstreeter that she is, loves to drop her g’s, so she’d no doubt call the poet Kiplin’. She might have asked, with that wink, to call him “Rud.”

That’s cutesy politics. But pigs still don’t have wings. The world’s still a dangerous place. It’s time for copybook realists in the White House.

How the 2-party System is Used to Contain Revolution

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:29:47 GMT

clipped by: Maxwell_Smart
clipper's remarks: Very easy to understand.

The 2-party system to government is what picking Miss America would be like from only allowing 2 states to participate. As the pageant would be destroyed, so our government has been destroyed.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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I was already aware of how the 2-party system is used to contain revolution in most "democratic" countries. But I was very impressed with the way that Alex sketched it out in simple, easy-to-understand terms.

It is very important for us all to realise that we are living under a simple but clever system that has been designed to contain revolution whilst projecting the illusion of being a free, fair and open democracy. The 2-party system provides firm support for the elite to implement their agenda from the top down, whilst the ordinary people at the grassroots level squabble between themselves over which political party is the best. In reality, it doesn't matter which of the two parties you vote for because the same agenda will unfold regardless. Hence, both parties are controlled at the very top by the same force.

Illusion or Evolution

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:02:56 GMT

clipped by: AainaA

Clip Source: www.redicecreations.com

The Amazing Holographic Universe

In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science.

To enable people to better visualize what he means, Bohm offers the following illustration.

Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two television cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other directed at its side.

This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment.

Tags: holography, universe, creation

Pink Eye.

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:25:44 GMT

clipped by: birdie-brain
clipper's remarks: gotta love illusions!

Clip Source: www.joe-ks.com

Rotating Illusion - Pink Eye Trick

follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, the dots will remain only one colour - pink

stare at the black

“+”

moving dot turns to green

concentrate on the black “+”

pink dots will slowly disappear,

only see only a single green dot rotating

Tags: illusions, illusion, optical