- Harnessing your Marilyn Monroe neurons – “In an unprecedented fusion of pop culture and neurosurgery, scientists at Caltech have invented a surreal brain-machine interface.” From Pete.
- The superpowers of candy – So instead of handing it out to trick-or-treaters, keep it to yourself.
- This explains so much – Tree lobsters (or rather, tree crabs in this case) and the zombie outbreak. From cerberus40.
- The Bloody Mary illusion – Cool explanation for why you can end up seeing weird creepy shit in the mirror. From jes3ica.
‎”Humans only use 10% of their brains. Zombies use 100%” – May I steal that? :)
@Zapski: Sure. I might even end up putting it on a t-shirt if I can come up with a decent graphic. Maybe a drawing of a brain that could be either an anatomical drawing or a butcher’s diagram?
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The Reason I see weird creepy shit in the mirror.
@Steve D: If you sell something with that, I’ll shill it at my (mostly dead) blog. I’m sure my three readers and the spiders that crawl to it will want one :)
The Bloody Mary illusion story was pretty interesting. I’ve heard of it before but only vaguely remembered it.
The rotating purple dot was cool.
A similar effect can be achieved quite easily and reliably by jamming up portions of the brain’s visual processing system with a serotonin analogue. As the analogue metabolizes, a residual affect makes “the ghost of electricity howl[s] in the bones of her face.”
@Zapski: How’s this?