Category: Food for thought

Do you trust your eyes

The flashed face distortion effect, occurs when two faces are rapidly alternated while fixating on a central point. Instead of seeing normal faces, the brain exaggerates differences, making them appear distorted. This happens due to adaptive face perception, where the brain enhances contrasts to distinguish features more effectively. The result is a surreal and unsettling […]

Power, not ideas, determines who is right

Everybody thinks their ideas are right. That’s why the people you call terrorists call themselves freedom fighters. The fundamentalists think they are right. The capitalists think they are right. The communists think they’re right. No one will ever convince anyone of anything. All these honorable men, lecturing the world from the floors of congresses and […]