Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern (Merriam-Webster) This one minute film uses pareidolia as a tool to convey the importance... continue reading
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The act of sniffing black pepper has been explored in some studies for its potential to interrupt and shift habitual behaviors and cravings. The inhalation of black pepper's pungent scent may engage the... continue reading
posted by BSR 3 months 3 weeks ago • 109 views • 4:03Why This Zig-Zag Coast Guard Search Pattern is Actually Genius - Smarter Every Day 268
posted by BSR 2 years 3 months ago • 105 views • 26:54YouTube description: This translucent Deepstaria jelly unfurled as it whorled and shapeshifted in currents created by ROV Hercules' thrusters. Its bright red resident isopod, a relative of the pillbug,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months ago • 793 views • 5:43Making a pattern to fill in a window opening can be a trial and error proposition - but it doesn't have to be that way!
posted by BSR 5 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 99 views • 7:31This is a Muonionalusta meteorite. The unique Widmanstätten pattern makes this one of the most beautiful meteorites. Showing this ring to new people really is amazing. Some people freak out completely... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 2 months ago • 798 views • 11:12YouTube description: Jide Ipaye loves sneakers. Growing up, he had a hard time finding cool ones in his size, so he learned to make his own. But why keep a good thing to yourself? His Keexs line, with... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months ago • 72 views • 2:28YouTube description: A fractal pattern is a kind of equation occurring all around us in nature. So what's a fractal and what does it have to do with nautiluses, romanesco broccoli, Star Trek II: The... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 442 views • 2:09YouTube description: This is how we go from single cells to people. EVO-DEVO Huxley B. Mac. Oh Carroll, Carroll Gould, Stephen Jay yeah D-D-D-D-Davidson and Peter See One cell divide and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 923 views • 4:46Although she only talks about English, irregular verbs in Spanish (and probably other languages) are really quite similar - frequently used words tend to be more resistant to change than less frequently used ones. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 57 views • 3:59YouTube description: Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 1969, two Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 11 months 1 week ago • 634 views • 6:45Did you know you could measure the speed of light using your microwave oven? Then you might like to know how the oven works.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 20 views • 10:01YouTube description: I thought about saying "secret patterns" or "mysterious patterns" in the title, but that'd be a lie: they're just mostly unknown! So let's talk about tactile paving, about design,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,726 views • 3:13"The science behind the stereogram craze of the 1990s. You might have remembered when sterograms appeared on Seinfeld. Learn about how these images trick the brain..."
posted by ant 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 29 views • 9:23Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 233 views • 4:03YouTube description: Greenford, Middlesex. An item about the manufacture of wallpaper. C/U on stuffed birds. C/U of an artist painting the birds in a design. Various shots of artists designing... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 446 views • 2:52YouTube description: Have ever wondered how digital illustrations are made? This video explains the basics. Help us keep making videos by supporting us in https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth We try... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months ago • 483 views • 3:49Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found in just about any... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 136 views • 4:36YouTube description: Just as vinyl records have a pattern of grooves and ridges that contain the sound, talking tapes - which were originally developed in 1918 - work on the same principle. Along the... continue reading
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