If you ever visit Fargo, the woodchipper prop from the movie is in our visitors center. They even have fake legs you can use to pose with it.
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If you ever visit Fargo, the woodchipper prop from the movie is in our visitors center. They even have fake legs you can use to pose with it.
Just put up a new YouTube short about a classic #cogsci experiment: Our poor memory for what a penny looks like! Given that the penny is retiring, I thought it was worth talking about this great piece of #psychology history. Enjoy!
Still learning the ropes at YouTube, but I've got a new version of my Ames Room video set up as a Short now! Check out the #science of how linear perspective cues can lead you to make big errors when judging object size! #psychscisky #visionscience youtube.com/shorts/a0uPD...
Research plug: we're currently seeking (bilateraly, congenitally) blind adults & Deaf adults for a *paid* online research study (screen reader compatible) on how individuals experience words across perceptual modalities. Ping bergelsonlab@fas.harvard.edu if interested! Reposts welcome! #Blind #Deaf
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
I've got a new #visionscience #scicomm video for you! In this one, I talk about one of our recent papers about face #pareidolia - enjoy! #PsychSciSky #STEMEducation
These contracts b/t AI co and universities infuriate me. Our budgets are thin and declining, we canβt invest in the people who do the work: the teaching, learning, the support. Yet we can drop millions each year to companies that already have tax breaks and are raking in profits.
The #scicomm content creation journey continues with another short #visionscience video! In this one, I take apart some upside-down goggles to show you how they flip everything you see. Enjoy (and don't forget to subscribe)! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcB9...
Caption: You hear IPA and think of pretentious beer, I hear IPA and think of an alphabetic system of phonetic notation... We are both terrible at parties"
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If you use the code BHM26, you can get 20% off The Payback and all the other great books in Bookshopβs Black History Month collection.
I've got a new #visionscience video for you! Today I'm showing off how to see the hidden object in Magic Eye stereograms without worrying about getting your eyes lined up the right way.
If you're interested in reading why this works... <1/2>
Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak.
But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
After a rather long delay, I've finally got a new Science of #Chess post up on lichess! This time I'm looking at a very neat #neuroscience paper (co-authored by @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social) using chess as a model for studying expertise. Enjoy! #cogneuro #PsychSciSky
There are a lot of problems I can't directly fix, but I can help some folks who can't safely go to work right now make rent. Maybe you can, too?
www.wfmn.org/funds/immigr...
This profile tells some of Powers story - born into slavery near Athens, GA, Harriet learned to sew as a child, a skill that became her livelihood after emancipation - and includes an image of the original quilt as well as the only known photograph of Powers from 1901.
tinyurl.com/5e2nrejv
It's exceptionally cold today, even by Minnesota-in-January standards. What brave, beautiful people.
Ben is starting a YouTube channel and if you like cool perceptual science explained clearly, you'll definitely want to subscribe.
Do you know how frickin pissed off you have to make Minnesotans for them to not only NOT help you, but HECKLE you?
We are told that police need to be allowed to kill when they get scared but that everyone else must comport themselves perfectly or else they deserve to get whacked.
A man and a woman holding hands while walking through a pedestrian alley in Lucca, Italy. The photo is taken from behind.
Best decision I ever made. (And maybe a more recent photo is in order....)
A Christmas decoration depicting two polar bears harnessed together and pulling a sled of gifts.
Just need to get yourself 4 of these....
Ben's grad lab had such a researcher. He called himself "the world's oldest post-doc" and loved the arrangement.
Mine used "right-side" as a verb, as in "Can you help right-side my shirt?"
Resultative generalizations like this are pretty widely attested, I think.
Happy New Yearβs Eve to everyone, and happy Stranger Things finale to all who celebrate! Coming on here to do a quick plug for my #strangerthings post from before s5 aired to celebrate this wonderful show. Check it out!
#strangerthings5 #horrorsky #horrorwriting
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I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
I looked the Yellow Admiral up and that's some nice underwing patterning. Love an eyespot!