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WATCH: Researchers Create Creepy 'Phantom' Sensation

Posted 04.13.2013 | Science
Read More: Neuroscience, Illusions, Video, Brain, Non-Amputees, Amputees, Phantom Limbs Non-Amputees, Invisible Hand, Phantom Illusions, Brain Science, Phantom Limb Syndrome, Phantom Limbs, Science News

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/12/2013 02:41 PM EDT on LiveScience Amputees often suffer from a phenomenon known as phant...

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Optical Illusions Explained

Posted 04.10.2013 | Arts
Read More: Animal Video Production, Illusions, Art News, Optical Illusions, Illusions Explained, Illusions Vimeo, Illusions Samm Hodges, Samm Hodges, Illusions Video, Op Art Explained, Op Art, Arts News

How would you define the concept of an optical illusion? Filmmaker Samm Hodges attempts to explain the phenomenon in his new video, "Illusions," a daz...

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23 Illusions Shattered By Age

Carol Orsborn | Posted 02.10.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Aging, Psychology, Baby Boomers, Spirituality, Happiness, Illusions, Immortality, Superwoman, Fifty News
Carol Orsborn

The illusion of immortality was but the first of many illusions dispelled by the transit into and ultimately through midlife. On this, the far side of midlife, the deconstruction of illusions has only accelerated.

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Optical Illusions Show How We See

Beau Lotto | Posted 01.16.2013 | TED Weekends
Read More: Vision, Illusions, Beau Lotto Optical Illusions, Optical Illusions, Beau Lotto Ted Talk, Light, Lotto Labs, Five Senses, Color, How Our Minds Shape Perception, Ted Weekends Video, Optical Illusions Reveal How Our Minds Shape Perception, Perception, TED Weekends News
Beau Lotto

2012-11-15-lottopullA blue sky is a contradiction: the sky at night is devoid of colour, so why during the day does the world seem to be shrouded in a blanket of blue?

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PHOTOS: Unintentionally Sexual Optical Illusions

Posted 11.13.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Optical Illusion Pictures, Illusions, Unintentionally Sexual Optical Illusions, Video, Funny Pictures, Optical Illusions, Unintentionally Sexual, Comedy News

Warning: accidentally NSFW material ahead. Body parts may look like other, much funnier body parts. Bicycle seats and leather interiors may cause you ...

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Teller Fights Back Against Magic Thieves

Esquire | Chris Jones | Posted 09.19.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Magic, Celebrity-Justice, Illusions, Penn and Teller, Rose & Her Shadow, Bill Smith, Harry Hooding, Gerard Bakardy, Teller, Gerard Dogge, Entertainment News

Stealing magic has become a commonplace crime. Teller, a man of infinite delicacy and deceit, decided to do something about it....

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Your Reality Is An Illusion

Natasha Dern | Posted 07.22.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Spiritual Development, Is Reality an Illusion, Illusions, Living News, Life Is an Illusion, Illusion vs. Reality, Your Reality Is an Illusion, Living, The Inner Life, Healthy Living Spirit, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
Natasha Dern

If everything is an illusion, why bother trying, improving or aspiring? Since none of what you experience, see or feel is real anyway, then who or what exists?

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The Talk of a Depression is Depressing

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Systemic Crisis, Economy, Obama, Bailout, Depression, Financial Crisis, Ferrell, Stiglitz, Illusions, Business News
Danny Schechter

As economists debate the likelihood of a depression most of our media highlights sunnier forecasts, perhaps to boost confidence and the sales pitches of their advertisers.

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