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Mardi, 10 Janvier 2012 16:00

How the Brain Spots Faces

How the Brain Spots Faces

By Mark Brown, Wired UK

Our brains are made to find faces. In fact, they’re so good at picking out human-like mugs we sometimes see them in a jumble of rocks, a bilious cloud of volcanic ash or some craters on Moon.

But another amazing thing about our brain is that we’re never actually fooled into thinking it’s a real person looking back at us. We might do a second take, but most normal brains can tell the difference between a man and the Moon.

Neuroscientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wanted to investigate how the brain decides exactly what is and is not...

Mardi, 10 Janvier 2012 15:00

Check Your Drink For Roofies

From Wired How-To Wiki

One of the tell-tale signs of a Rohypnol-contaminated drink is a blue tint. Photo by Rosana Prada/flickr/CC

Introduction

Unless you have the rotating eye skills of a chameleon, it's hard to watch out for your drink at the same time you watch out for that cute guy on the dance floor. No matter how self-aware you are, there's always a chance of getting an unexpected pharmaceutical present in your beverage on a night out. Any drink, even an innocent tonic water, can turn into a cocktail that takes you to the Twilight Zone if it’s unattended. The secret ingredients are c...

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