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How to fool Houdini and avoid fooling yourself
Scientific American: Last week, Alex Stone taught Wall Street Journal readers the world round how to steal a watch. It’s probably a safe bet that fellow magicians were none too pleased. Nor are they likely
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Phantom hand mapped for the first time
NewScientist: EVER wanted to know what an invisible hand looks like? Well, it is slightly wider than a real hand, and it has shorter fingers too. For the first time, the perceived shape of a
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Visualize and Score… BIG!
Scientific American: I love optical illusions. They make me feel clever if I can figure them out and even when I have to peek at the answer, it’s still fun to find out how my
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Psychologists: Awesomeness Is Good For You
Business Insider: A seriously cool study is coming out later this year in Psychological Science on the benefits of awe. Awe, which describes a “feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder” and comes
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Sexy women’s bodies in ads seen as objects
United Press International: Both men and women see images of sexy women’s bodies in advertisements as objects, but they see sexy-looking men as people, Belgian researchers found. “What’s unclear is, we don’t actually know whether
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Advertising: Why we think sexy men are men and sexy women are objects
Toronto Star: Society has grown accustomed to depictions of scantily clad women being used to sell everything from hamburgers to SUVs, now a study has found that at a basic cognitive level, both men and
