Scary Face Smiley Face

This is really cool and a bit freaky but you might
have to back off a bit, or squint your eyes.


at the website grand-illusions.com :

Yeah click it !!
Do you remember the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Dr Jekyll, the famous scientist, is not all he seems,
and the other side of his character - Mr Hyde - is,
you will recall, a distinctly nasty piece of work.

Continuing the idea of the two sides of the human
character, have a look at the picture above. On the
left is Dr Angry, and on the right is Mr Calm.

Now, back away from your computer screen. This effect
will work at different distances for different people,
but you should see the two characters swap over...! As
you come closer to the screen again, they revert to
their original characters. Spooky or what!

As optical illusions go, we think this is pretty
impressive. A short explanation goes something like
this. When we look at an object, we can normally see
both fine detail and coarse detail. However when we
are close, the fine detail will dominate, and when we
are further away, we lose the fine detail, and see
more of the coarse detail.

Both of the faces you see above are hybrids - each
face is actually a combination of two faces. The left
hand face shows an angry man in fine detail, but
within the picture there is also coarse detail of the
calm face. Move away, and you lose the fine (angry)
detail, and just see the coarse (calm) detail.

The right hand face shows the calm face in fine
detail, and the angry face in coarse detail.


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Kawasaki ZX-6R Ninja �Geometrik� edition (apparently) from
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Eccentric Genius Hypnodisk, (not) available to take over the world at http://www.eccentricgenius.ca/Products7.htm
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Going anti-grav

Instructions from the 1996 Electronics Now magazine on how to build your own ant-grvity machine (well an electro-magnetic levitator) re-printed on the web in full here.

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The incredible mind-control and journey of a parasite

From Pennyslvania Boat and Fish Commision, is this description of the life cycle of a fish parasite. The "Black Spot" parasite has be born in the belly of a bird, get passed to the water, live in a snail, before it progresses to live in a fish. Link.

Incredibly,iIn order to increase the chances of a bird eating a host fish, the parasite actually alter fish behavior, causing it to swim awkwardly and nearer the surface, where a bird will more likely grab it.

The lifecycle of the "black spot" parasite is complex. The adult parasite is found in a fish eating bird, the kingfisher. The larval parasite is transferred from the infected fish to the bird during the feeding process. In the kingfisher, the larval stage develops into an adult parasite. The adult parasite in the intestine of the bird produces eggs that are eventually deposited in the water. There the eggs mature, hatch, and develop into the miracidium stage of the parasite. The miracidium infects a snail. In the snail, the miracidium develops into the cercaria life stage. The cercaria leaves the snail and actively penetrates a host fish. In the fish, the parasite becomes encysted. In about 22 days, black spots form around the cyst. This entire lifecycle takes at least 112 days to complete.

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Civilisation crash

From polyscience.org an interesting feature on the collapse of the Easter Island population. Read the interview with Dr William Basener here

There are several well-known examples of societies that have experienced a collapse. Several of these are described in Jared Diamond’s recent book “Collapse.” In each case there are a number of theories for the cause of the collapse. For example, take the Maya Civilization. At their peak, the population was as dense as modern day Los Angeles, and they built the magnificent buildings, but their population very suddenly dropped to a small fraction of their peak.

Q: Can your work be applied to modern civilizations? Perhaps for the use of oil?
A: We believe so. We are collaborating with some economists on applications to the present. Long-term sustainability is a well-studied topic, although much of the work is still being done

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Cheat at Poker ?

Article from 1999 about cheating at online poker.

Largely about random number generators.

Link here

Another guide here

Notorious casino cheat claims 99 per cent of players will one day be cheating... here



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