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How Every Movie & Video Game Tricks Your Brain
Movies. Video games. YouTube videos. All of them work because we accidentally figured out a way to fool your brain’s visual processing system, and you don’t even know it’s happening. In this video, I talk to neuroscientist David...
Professor Dave Explains
The Earth is Definitely Not Flat
Anti-science mentality is rampant in this day and age, and one of the more peculiar aspects of this trend is the current fad that is the Flat Earth model. There exists a group of people who believe that against everything we have come to...
TED-Ed
Animation Basics: The Option Illusion of Motion
From creating simple flip books to watching Saturday morning cartoons, we have all experienced the magic of animation. But how is it that a series of still images can be brought to life? It all has to do with the speed at which our brain...
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Mitk12 Videos: #Ask Mit: Why Do Stars Twinkle and Move?
Astronomer and MIT professor Anna Frebel answers the questions, "Why do stars twinkle instead of shine steady?" and "Do stars move at night or do they just look like they do because of the earth spinning?" [3:01]