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Bad Astronomy

Headless skeptic

By Phil Plait
June 29, 200912:00 PM
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My evil twin, psychologist and skeptic Richard Wiseman, has another winner: a video playing with your blind spot.

Very cool! I love illusions, and so I used to do all the blind spot tests when I was a kid… but I never knew this about it. I have lots of ideas about how this might work, but I’ll have to do a spot (haha) of research on it.

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