How Your Eyes Trick Your Mind
Look closer at optical illusions, says Melissa Hogenboom, and they can reveal how you truly perceive reality.
Look closer at optical illusions, says Melissa Hogenboom, and they can reveal how you truly perceive reality.
The United States has already had more cases of measles in the first month of 2015 than the number that is typically diagnosed in a full year. This follows a year in which the number of cases was several times more than the average since 2000, when the disease was declared eliminated in the United States.
Making good with the IRS only gets tougher.
Everything tastes better when you make it yourself. Okay, not everything. But all the recipes and ingredients that come in a Blue Apron box are way better than whatever half-eaten leftovers you were planning on eating in front of the TV tonight.
Phony résumés, deception services, and the booming business of lies.
A sheriff's official says former rap mogul Suge Knight has been taken to a hospital complaining of chest pains after he appeared in court in a murder case.
Countless couples have tackled the taboo subject of racy videos and illicit orgasms. What happens when it’s the woman who can’t stop watching?
*Waves hand at defending like she's casting some sort of judge spell* Case closed.
ISIS released a video Tuesday showing captive Jordanian pilot Moath al-Ksasbah being burned alive inside his cell. Al-Ksasbah was captured by ISIS in December after his F-16 crashed on the banks of the Euphrates River in Syria.
Selfies were the cause of a deadly plane crash in the United States last year, government investigators have concluded.
The entire world is going to go from consuming about 2.5 exabytes a month in 2014 to 25 exabytes a month in 2019
What's better than having the funniest, most informative and unusual videos in your inbox? Being able to say "oh, I saw that already" when your friends send them to you next week.
As fast as light is (and it's really, really fast) it still takes it about 45 minutes to travel from our Sun to Jupiter. Here's that journey in real time. The anticipation of each approaching planet is only eclipsed by how small they seem, and how vastly, mind-bogglingly empty our solar system really is.
Every year, thousands of men and women tackle the course of 200 obstacles, described on the Tough Guy website as eight country miles filled with freezing mud and "barbed wire, cuts, scrapes, burns, dehydration, hypothermia, acrophobia, claustrophobia, electric shocks, sprains, twists, joint dislocation and broken bones."
Given the importance of digital connectivity in today’s world, maybe it’s no surprise that cell phones have joined drugs and weapons as the contraband of choice in correctional institutions all over the country.
Your phone died. Again. In these scenarios, who among us has not dreamed the dream of a future where our devices charge instantly and last forever. As capacitors — or even more exciting, ultracapacitors — get better and better at storing energy, they could replace batteries and realize at least one half of that dream.
There's lots of dirt, trees and crying.
Elysium Health hasn't discovered the fountain of youth, but their new supplement — with the backing of some of the world's foremost authorities on aging— could change how you get older.
Your cat’s continued indifference toward her new Deluxe Scratch DJ Deck may be disappointing, but there is an object that’s pretty much guaranteed to pique her interest. That object, as the Internet has so thoroughly documented, is a box.
Ten years after fleeing in terror, an American expat revisits Somaliland to consider who she has become.
"Go Set a Watchman" was completed in the 1950s, but set aside by the writer, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for the only novel she ever published.
A couple of months ago, I pitched a feature on the music industry that I was totally qualified to write. But the editor questioned my experience: What exactly had I published about the music industry? By my count, over two thousand blogposts since 2009. But the links to my author pages bounced back because the websites had disappeared.
MPs should take the "bold step" to allow the creation of babies from three people, Public Health Minister Jane Ellison says.
The country's aging population isn't the only reason.
It's almost *too* good. Come to think of it, have you ever seen Brian Williams and Snoop Dogg in the same room together?
The conflict that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s included widespread killing, rape, and torture, says the International Court of Justice in The Hague. But the court said Tuesday that the acts can't be deemed genocide, something both Croatia and Serbia have claimed in filings against each other.
Dish used companies it owns in order to place $13.3 billion worth of winning bids in an auction of wireless airwaves that can be used for cellular networks. But Dish only has to pay $10 billion because it didn't place the bids directly.
We're not #1 anymore. And it seems to only matter to Jordan Klepper.
The worst part of this video is that several people looked at the finished product and thought "yes, good."
The first of seven amusement machines that would be released before 1978's true video game cabinets, Laser Clay Shooting System wasn't just a pioneer; it could also have spelled disaster for Nintendo's gaming ambitions were it not for the heroism of a man by the name of Genyo Takeda.
For fish and sea creatures in the Northern Hemisphere, though, there is no physical barrier to their movement — only one of temperature. And once the Arctic Ocean warms enough for them to move in, they can keep moving.
An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest absence of evolution ever reported — a type of deep-sea microorganism that appears not to have evolved over more than 2 billion years. But the researchers say that the organisms' lack of evolution actually supports Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
One keyboard bug three decades in the making.
From timeshare scams to fake Ebola treatments, Google's Bad Ads team struck down some 200,000 advertisers in 2014.
Alternate title for this segment: Jimmy Kimmel's writers take a day off.
The new character, named Alesha, Who Smiles at Death. While her card doesn't mention her gender, a story published on Wizards of the Coast's website reveals that she was born anatomically male, weaving her background into the tale of combat.
The delicate balancing act between stresses of growth and adhesion can help demystify some painful nail disorders.
Hasbro has produced versions of the boardgame with Monopoly money replaced with real cash.
President Obama’s budget proposal lays out his wish list for the coming year, an opening bid in what is sure to be a protracted negotiation with Republican congressional leaders over the coming weeks and months. It sets the stage for the perennial debate about how much the government should spend, and how. Here are some key takeaways from the president’s budget plan, charted.
Unless you're about to see the new "Hobbit" movies, frame rate isn't something viewers usually think about. But for most of film's history, it was a hotly-debated topic.
Within weeks of moving in, their new floors buckled. Their pipes froze. Their ceiling cracked. They also say that their foundation began to shift. One day, just months after signing their mortgage, they became so concerned with the condition of the house that they grabbed their cats, packed their car and fled — afraid their walls might collapse.
You may have heard the expression that dogs ‘see with their noses.’ But these creature’s amazing nasal architecture actually reveals a whole world beyond what we can see.
That morning, I was single and 37 years old, almost precisely the average age at which women freeze their eggs, although I didn’t know that then.
Standardized tests aren't the only way of measuring intelligence.
ESPN Films’ “Keepers of the Streak” brilliantly shows why we need it, but corporate balance sheets threaten to extinguish the craft.
This weekend, the German Bundesliga returns to action after its month-long winter break. After a grueling World Cup year with a shortened summer vacation for many players, the chance to rest was a long time coming.
Targets were contacted by an unknown woman who claimed to be offering support to the rebel cause, using information and photos lifted from social media sites. After enough conversation, she would send pictures laced with malware, planting a remote-access trojan on the victim's computer or phone.
The evidence against too much sleep is not as strong as the evidence against too little, though getting too much sleep has been linked with increased risk of near-term mortality.
The first half of the field guide introduces steamed items; the second covers fried, baked and sweet offerings. These general divisions have then been subdivided according to each dim sum’s predominant physical characteristics.
People in Cambodia experience what we Americans call depression. But there's no direct translation for the word "depression" in the Cambodian Khmer language. Instead, people may say "thelea tdeuk ceut," which literally means "the water in my heart has fallen."
There’s been a lot of fear about the future of artificial intelligence. Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk worry that AI-powered computers might one day become uncontrollable super-intelligent demons. So does Bill Gates.
He might be a couple years from a nursing home, but if you fight him you'll be a few punches from a concussion.
The father, mother, police, doctors and hospital records all tell different stories about that night. Does anyone know the truth?
This new video for his track "Doompy Poomp" is, well, not what you'd think of when you think of Skrillex. Don't wait for the drop — it isn't coming.
An exotic form of silicon, called silicene, could enable a new generation of faster computers.
Does it feel like you've seen this video before? You probably haven't, but here's why it seems so familiar.
The two companies may soon become ferocious competitors rather than allies.
Djent bands have been working entirely too hard.