There is now a Twitter account called @FacesPics dedicated to just that – pictures of random stuff that looks like it has a face. Seeing faces in random objects is called pareidolia, a term for giving random or unrelated stimuli (mostly vision or sound) meaning. Many theorize that pareidolia is a hard-wired mental feature that has helped us quickly recognize and identify human faces and make sense of the world around us. Judging by these pics, all it really takes is two eyes and a mouth to make a face.
When you see the fast fashion giant Zara proudly selling “Dude With Sign” shirts for their summer collection, you know the Dude has gone mainstream. And how couldn’t he? With a whopping 7.5 million followers, New Yorker Seth Phillips has gained a cult following for his truth bombs that protest anything from loud engines, phones that shatter easily, “x” in espresso, and other very specific, small things that add up to our daily lives.
b. Hong Kong, 1950, d. New York, New York 1990 BIO | PRESS | GALLERY EXHIBITIONS | NEWS BIO Tseng Kwong Chi (born 1950, Hong Kong; died 1990, New York) is internationally known for his photographic…
Have you ever noticed how various objects and constructions look as if they’ve got faces – they are smiling, being angry or amazed. However, what some may call acuteness to detail is usually attributed to a psychological phenomenon, called pareidolia – that’s when a person perceives a random stimulus as something significant, for e.g., sees faces on clouds or buildings.
The Dodo serves up emotionally and visually compelling, highly sharable animal-related stories and videos to help make caring about animals a viral cause.
How the introvert really interacts with others.
There is a vast distinction between being messy and being dirty. Dirty implies a lack of showering, despite my testaments against it, it's something we all do (yes, I do shower). Being messy implies something greater; it refers to those days you…
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Hi pals! I posted on here around 4 years ago and my art style has changed quite a bit, so I thought I'd make another post!
I had a lot of rejection all at once. Career rejections, love rejections, one after another. Life's just like that sometimes. When you end up in situations like that, you can get a lot of intrusive thoughts about your life and your value as a person. A little voice starts creeping into your head telling you bad things about yourself when you're trying to sleep at night. I eventually got so worn down by this I just started having mental discussions with these negative thoughts instead of shoving them aside.
The author suggests we all acquire basic understanding of mathematical concepts that explain our universe
What the movies don't tell you.
One way that businesses remain competitive is by improving their processes, both operational and financial. Doing so requires the creation of a way to specifically measure improvement. As the saying goes, "what can't be measured can't be...
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an infamously brilliant playwright, author, and social activist. Oscar Wilde's well-known legacy pervades his many published essays, plays, especially his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. While Wilde was a epic figure in his time, due to his many witticisms and social standing, he is now regarded as one of the greatest producers of Irish literature. He said or wrote a lot of witty things, and here are his 15 most famous quotes. (via BuzzFeed)
Bodies in Urban Spaces is a rare and unique performance where dancers move throughout a city and organize their bodies into the nooks and crannies of
Do you know you are spending WAY more money than you need to on general household costs? Here's 15 main things I do NOT spend money on and the best tips on how you can start doing the same with your budget! Frugal living, penny pinching and saving money can be fun and doesn't mean you have to miss out on the things that are important to you. With these ideas and hacks, you can start getting a lot of the things your family uses for free or eradicate them from you home altogether!
There are over a quarter of a million words in the English language. Veronika Hecko and Albert Wu just want to help us use more than ten percent of them.
Insights — like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA — can change the world. We also need insights into the everyday things that frustrate and confuse us so that we can more effectively solve problems and get things done. Yet we know very little about when, why, or how insights are formed — or what blocks them. In Seeing What Others Don't, renowned cognitive psychologist Gary Klein unravels the mystery. Klein is a keen observer of people in their natural settings — scientists, businesspeople, firefighters, police officers, soldiers, family members, friends, himself — and uses a marvelous variety of stories to illuminate his research into what insights are and how they happen. What, for example, enabled Harry Markopolos to put the finger on Bernie Madoff? How did Dr. Michael Gottlieb make the connections between different patients that allowed him to publish the first announcement of the AIDS epidemic? What did Admiral Yamamoto see (and what did the Americans miss) in a 1940 British attack on the Italian fleet that enabled him to develop the strategy of attack at Pearl Harbor? How did a "smokejumper" see that setting another fire would save his life, while those who ignored his insight perished? How did Martin Chalfie come up with a million-dollar idea (and a Nobel Prize) for a natural flashlight that enabled researchers to look inside living organisms to watch biological processes in action? Klein also dissects impediments to insight, such as when organizations claim to value employee creativity and to encourage breakthroughs but in reality block disruptive ideas and prioritize avoidance of mistakes. Or when information technology systems are "dumb by design" and block potential discoveries. Both scientifically sophisticated and fun to read, Seeing What Others Don't shows that insight is not just a "eureka!" moment but a whole new way of understanding. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781610393829 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 03-24-2015 Pages: 304 Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)About the Author Gary Klein, PhD, a senior scientist at MacroCognition LLC, was instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making. Dr. Klein received his PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1969. He spent the first phase of his career in academia and the second phase working for the government as a research psychologist for the U.S. Air Force. The third phase, in private industry, started in 1978 when he founded Klein Associates, a research and development company that had grown to thirty-seven employees by the time he sold it in 2005. He is the author of Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions; The Power of Intuition; Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis (with Beth Crandall and Robert Hoffman); and Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making. Dr. Klein lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.Table of Contents Table of Contents Part I Entering Through the Gates of Insight: How Do Insights Get Triggered? 1 Hunting for Insights 3 2 The Flash of Illumination 17 3 Connections 33 4 Coincidences and Curiosities 45 5 Contradictions 61 6 Creative Desperation: Trapped by Assumptions 79 7 Different Ways to Look at Insight 91 8 The Logic of Discovery 101 Part II Shutting the Gates: What Interferes With Insights? 9 Stupidity 111 10 The Study of Contrasting Twins 119 11 Dumb by Design 139 12 How Organizations Obstruct Insights 151 13 How Not to Hunt for Insights 171 Part III Opening the Gates: How Can We Foster Insights? 14 Helping Ourselves 181 15 Helping Others 193 16 Helping Our Organizations 207 17 Tips for Becoming an Insight Hunter 225 18 The Magic of Insights 241 Acknowledgments 251 Notes 255 Story Index 269 Index 273 Show More
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Spanish photographer Chema Madoz creates twisted, mind-bending images using everyday, ordinary objects. Placing the objects into surreal scenes, he fools
Unusual Uses for Ordinary Things: Your house is full of hidden treasures and everyday items with the potential to be so much more. In this collection of 24 Instructables, you will learn unusual ways to use everyday items such as tennis balls, cheap vodka, nail polish, tea bags, coff…
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Don't give your friends any context. Just send these pics to them. Your friends will be so glad.
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When comparing NFL teams to cartoon characters, it can become rather difficult. For example, is any team deserving of being compared to the ultimate cartoon character, Mickey Mouse? ...
Funny meme madness, to laugh your blues away!
Drawtism says he's creating illustrations to disturb the comfortable. Or to comfort the disturbed. Whatever the case, one might call his works funny, low-brow, nonsense drawings... And the artist would be fine with all of these epithets. He just wants to help people escape the mundane part of day-to-day life.
"ADHD is a bonafide neurological disorder recognized by the DSM and countless major institutions, and backed up with years of research," says Kevin Murphy, Ph.D, President of the Adult ADHD Clinic of Central Massachusetts. Many people still struggle and blame themselves for what they think is a defect in character, he says, when in reality it's a very treatable disorder.
Dies ist ein Original-Kunstplakat von Simon Evans, das für eine Ausstellung in Dänemark im Jahr 2009 wirbt, Simon Evans™ ist die künstlerische Zusammenarbeit zwischen Simon Evans und Sarah Lannan. Die Künstler schaffen dichte textbasierte Collagen, die mit kurzen, poetischen Phrasen, Zeichnungen und Bildern gesättigt sind, die oft aus dem Schutt des Alltags sowohl innerhalb als auch außerhalb des Ateliers entstehen. Das Poster ist in gutem Zustand mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren entlang der Ränder. Es misst 140x92cm. Das Poster ist ungerahmt und wird gerollt in einer stabilen Röhre verschickt. Der Preis beinhaltet registrierten und versicherten Versand mit nationaler Post. Upgrades für schnelleren Versand sind beim Checkout erhältlich. Bitte senden Sie mir eine Nachricht für eine aktuelle Schätzung der Transportzeit zu Ihrem Ziel. Die aktuelle internationale Transportzeit mit der nationalen Post beträgt ungefähr 2 Wochen.
"Idk I think feminism should be called something different, like common sense or something."
just a wee bit of meme
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