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What Do You See? A Face or the Word “Liar”?
The Amazing Color Changing Card Trick
6 Ways Food Stores Can Save Money and Promote Healthy Eating
One of the primary channels through which grocery stores lose money is via product spoilage. Let’s be honest, without the addition of various chemical preservatives (and goodness knows what else) fresh fruits and vegetables simply do not last as long as their processed and prepackaged counterparts. And as more fresh food spoils, the choices that health conscious consumers have in their food selection become more restricted. Clearly then, both food stores and food shoppers will benefit greatly if more fresh healthy food is available for sale each month. How can this be done? Consider these 6 ways: Continue reading
The Thatcher Illusion
Look carefully…there’s something pretty special about the images above. What’s so great about four upside-down faces you ask? See for yourself. Below we have the same images when positioned right-side-up: Continue reading
Monkey See, Monkey Read
In the video above Jonathan Grainger discusses an experiment in which he and his colleagues attempted to teach Guinea baboons to distinguish between real English words and strings of letters which are not English words. The baboons learned to recognize words from nonwords, exhibiting human-like orthographic processing. The results indicate that the baboons were focusing on the location of individual letters in the words in order to identify them. Interestingly, this is similar to the approach taken by human readers.
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- Reuters Video: Bright baboons show linguistic learning skills (englishblog.com)
- Baboons recognize words on a screen (jtm71.wordpress.com)
- Baboon personalities connected to social success and health benefits (sciencedaily.com)
- Monkey gets upset about receiving unequal pay (Video) (boingboing.net)
