Theidlerhour - Bricolage Brain

websurfer1994:

me: *overestimates the length of a yellow light and completely 100% runs a red light* me while driving away: I AM A BEACON OF SIN I AM A BEACON OF SIN I AM A BEACON OF SIN I AM A BEACON OF SIN I AM A BEACON OF SIN I AM A BEACON OF SIN I AM A BEACON OF SIN I

Shadow illusion

The human brain uses shadows to interpret how objects move. By faking the shadow, one can fake the perceived motion of an object. The red circle moves along a line.

Interactive version:

http://www.malinc.se/m/ModellingIllusions.php

This is a model of how many Earth’s can fit inside the sun. 

MBTI is not:

An excuse to not work on improvement of personal weaknesses. 

A theory with any valid connection to astrology. 

A reason not to befriend someone of a different type. 

An excuse for any action whatsoever. 

A set of rules/stereotypes that limits your career options. 

A personality test based on four letters. 

 MBTI is: 

A method of understanding personal strengths and weaknesses. 

A tool to help understand and get along with others of different personalities. 

Based on cognitive functions, not the four letters alone. 

Something some of us have a lot of fun doing.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

Nikolai Lobachevsky (via curiosamathematica)

I need help. So, you know how when you’re in a bus, or in a car, and you throw something into the air and it basically moves with the bus? It goes straight back down when you throw it up, as if the bus wasn’t moving. But the bus /is/ moving so PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY

Slap it. Shoot it. Kaboot it.

Gandhi (via nezua)

Cemetery of Dead Science on our floor this week!