Posted on July 12, 2009 by eveningperson
[BPSDB] Contrary to what many people believe, the camera and its still image always lie. Our visual perception of the world depends on a jerky series of images that the brain interprets as continual motion. This is especially important as we interpret other people’s faces, which are expressive through their unending mobility.
Stop that motion [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2009 by eveningperson
[BPSDB] Spinning numbers in more ways than one. The explanation of the science is correct, and the purpose of the counter seems admirable. But of course, the supposed precision of the numbers is spurious. (It grates on this former science lecturer, who used to have to explain why all the digits output on a calculator [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2009 by eveningperson
We’ve been having a colder winter this year in the UK than we’ve had for some years (about thirteen, or eighteen or twenty years, depending who you’re reading). Some people seem to think this is evidence that global warming has stopped, or even that the world is getting colder (see Melanie Phillips, Gerald Warner, Richard [...]
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