June 2012
0 posts
May 2012
15 posts
The Coquette: The Banality of Evil →
coketalk:
First, watch this:
Did you watch it all? Seriously. Go back, and watch it all. Especially the part that starts at eight minutes thirty seconds.
Now take a deep breath, exhale the rage, and watch this:
Left alone to wallow in his own willful ignorance, Jesse Lee Peterson would be…
April 2012
7 posts
March 2012
14 posts
science tumbled: Not Explaining a Visual Illusion →
science:
This is the Hermann grid illusion. It’s a very well-known and simple optical illusion. When you look at the intersections of the white lines, you see illusory dark blobs.
The standard explanation for this has to do with retinal ganglion cells. These cells pool information from several rod and…
February 2012
18 posts
After the earth dies, some five billion years from now, after it’s burned...
– Carl Sagan