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Category: psychology

  • How to Stop Time

    I found this groovy little illusion: How to Stop Time. It involves looking at a the second hand of a clock out of the corner of your eye, and it appears to stop moving. The site gets cheesiness points for trying to convince people that they are actually stopping time. I do wonder what the…

  • Book Review: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell

    I have a reading problem. It’s not that I’m illiterate (even though I just had to look up how to spell illiterate), it’s that I have trouble finishing books. Whenever I get a new book, I want to start reading it right away. Therefore, all the books I’m currently reading start seeming like a chore…

  • The Power of the Mind

    I have two fun things to share today, both dealing with the power of the human mind (which is sort of what I study). First, a site which dramatically demonstrates the blind spot we all have on each eye, and what our mind does to fill it in so we don’t constantly see a gaping…