News Briefs 10-10-2007
Posted by Rick MG at 11:50, 10 Oct 2007You may say that I'm a dreamer...
- This is an awesome Right Brain/Left Brain test. Watch the dancer spin around -- the direction you see her spin determines which side of the brain you use most. I'm Right Brain; no matter how hard I squint, I can't make her spin the other way.
- A plane smuggling 3.7 tons of cocaine that crashed in the Yucatan a couple of weeks ago had previously flown to Guantanamo Bay.
- Protestors report seeing insect-sized robotic spies. So that's what keeps biting me.
- DARPA plans to use cyborg insects -- part bug, part machine. I can't imagine a mosquito talking like Arnie.
- Do infants have an innate spider detection mechanism? My parents tell me my first words weren't "mummy" or "daddy", but "my spidey sense is tingling".
- Little Savages is an art exhibition at the Natural History Museum exploring how faeries behave in the wild, such as tormenting foxes. I don't think Inari and her fox spirits will be happy about that.
- Man-eating Trees and Mongolian Death Worms, oh my: that's a tree that eats men, not a man eating a tree.
- A plague of bogong moths has invaded Sydney. Why don't they just turn off the lights?
- Brisbane is alive with ghost activity. Who ya gonna call? Greg Taylor!
- Interest in ghost-hunting is becoming increasingly popular.
- A photographer swears a phantom cat that appears in a photograph wasn't at the church wedding. I happen to be writing a story about a ghost-cat.
- Nick Redfern discusses Brad Steiger's Shadow World, and how spirits and beings from dark realms connect with UFOlogy (Amazon US or UK).
- More than 60 glowing red orbs were throbbing and hovering above Uckfield, UK. Roxanne...
- The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the search for Peking Man by Amir Aczel (Amazon US or UK).
- The democratically-elected Tibetan government-in-exile (TGIE) has challenged China's law forbidding lamas from reincarnating. Hopefully China's lawmakers reincarnate as Buddhist monks.
- The United States didn't set out to eradicate the Mandeans, the only surviving Gnostics from antiquity, but they're not helping either.
- Searching for God in the brain: are spiritual epiphanies neurological?
- A geneticist who made a synthetic chromosome says he is creating artificial life that could combat climate change. He should've said, "It's alive!"
- Saving the world is easier than you think: 10 little things that make a difference.
- Pregnant moose stay close to humans to escape the threat of hungry bears. Unfortunately, hunters don't have to walk as far.
- A plan to build a stairway on an ancient Native American mound in the Toltec Mounds Archaeological State Park has experts fuming.
- A little known nomadic tribe has been photographed deep in Peru's Amazon. Encounters with unknown tribes are increasing.
- A private dive team has discovered the wreckage of an American ship that sank off the Alaskan coast in 1868.
- The notes of 17th-century scientist Robert Hooke are now online thanks to the Royal Society.
- The New Horizons spacecraft has taken incredible pictures of Jupiter, including footage of a volcanic eruption on Io.
- Happy 67th birthday to John Lennon for yesterday, and best wishes to Yoko and her Imagine Peace project.
Thanks Greg, Kat and Brian.
Quote of the Day:
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon
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10 October 2007
3 years 46 weeks
I'm in my right mind (sorry). Ok, so how do I make her spin anti-clockwise?
2 May 2004
20 hours 12 min
I just spoke with someone who sees her spin anti-clockwise, making them Left-brained. But they tell me if they focus, they can see her spin clockwise too. So it is possible to see her spin both ways. I've tried, but all I see is clockwise spinning. Which doesn't worry me at all, I know I'm very Right-brained and that just confirms it. I'd be more worried if I saw the dancer doing backflips or standing still.
19 October 2004
3 years 38 weeks
I see her spinning counter-clockwise, but if I look away for a second I can make her go clockwise. Weird indeed! Anyone else make her change direction at will?
25 November 2004
3 weeks 4 days
I saw her go clockwise first. To make her change direction, just close your eyes, imagine her going the other way, and open them.
20 August 2006
36 weeks 4 days
I see her spinning counter-clockwise, but if I look away for a second I can make her go clockwise. Weird indeed! Anyone else make her change direction at will?
I can make her change direction at will. It hurts trying to do it literally. Not making a brain joke. My head does hurt trying to make it change direction. I've done it. I can do it by lowering my head down and move my eye down and focus on the foot sticking out. I can make it spin the other way then. If i slowly and patiently move my head up it'll stick. It's weird. What's even weirder is that it makes more sense to me and hurts less looking at it as it spins COUNTER-clockwise.
edit: my head probably hurts though from the fact i'm quite tired.
ps. anti-clockwise makes no sense. anti meaning opposition towards it. You can't be against clockwise. just a fyi - not trying to be a grammar nazi but it literally makes no sense to call it anti-clockwise given what anti means.
12 April 2007
5 hours 4 min
suffered some headaches during the experiments. Must be visual fatigue due to the lower frames in the animation. Or your 2 halves of the brain literally fighting to take over! :-)
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
1 May 2004
2 weeks 2 days
Very cool, Rick. ;-)
When the page first loaded, the dancer was turning counter-clockwise for about 6 seconds, then she began turning clockwise. At first, I had to cover everything except her swinging foot in order to see her change directions. I can now focus back and forth between counterclockwise and clockwise fairly easily, but I'd say clockwise (right brain) is slightly predominant.
Here's how to change her direction:
If she's swinging clockwise, use your hand to cover everything except her foot as it's swinging on the left side of the image, and visualize it swinging in front of her from left to right.
If she's swinging counter-clockwise, cover everything but her foot as it's swinging on the right side of the image, and visualize it swinging in front of her from right to left.
Kat
20 August 2006
36 weeks 4 days
this doesn't work for me. I must be heavily right brain dominant. I figured out how to make it spin the otherway it just takes a lot for me to do it.
but ya i agree it's very cool.
Very cool, Rick. ;-)
When the page first loaded, the dancer was turning counter-clockwise for about 6 seconds, then she began turning clockwise. At first, I had to cover everything except her swinging foot in order to see her change directions. I can now focus back and forth between counterclockwise and clockwise fairly easily, but I'd say clockwise (right brain) is slightly predominant.
Here's how to change her direction:
If she's swinging clockwise, use your hand to cover everything except her foot as it's swinging on the left side of the image, and visualize it swinging in front of her from left to right.
If she's swinging counter-clockwise, cover everything but her foot as it's swinging on the right side of the image, and visualize it swinging in front of her from right to left.
Kat
1 May 2004
20 hours 2 min
like you Kat, when the page first loaded she spun counter clockwise for a few seconds then went clockwise. I focussed then blinked and she went counter again. I can easily change her direction at any time just by adjusting focuss. Clockwise seems to be the dominant direction for me.
Fun though.....
"Life can be whatever you want it to be, as long as you do what your told."
LRF.
10 October 2007
4 years 17 weeks
I think this is total bs. Sometimes it spins clockwise, sometimes anticlockwise. Totally random. Can someone else confirm?
14 June 2006
1 week 4 days
Hello,
Nice gimmick, with me it started counter, stopped then clockwise, stopped again then a final twist and now i see it going clockwise and cant get her to stop again. Btw i copied the gif and she spins much faster directly on the pc. Anyway can't say im surprised i know i'm a rightbrainer though one with good math skills.
A matter of choice;
Intimidation, corruption and lies, or serenity, sharing and sincerity.
12 April 2007
5 hours 4 min
With me the girls starts BREAKDANCING. I think it's time to increase my medication :-)
I see her going clockwise and no matter what I did it did not change. But then I tried to see her with my peripherial vision, and then it can spin counter-clockwise.
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
12 April 2007
5 hours 4 min
Sounds like a black-ops cover front to me.
Think about it. What better place to store drugs than Guantanamo? Who's going to look THERE? And it's the perfect spot for distribution between Mexico and Miami...
Let's hope this story doesn't get buried.
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
21 November 2006
4 years 17 weeks
Yes I can see her go both ways
What does that mean?
I am bi something?
1 May 2004
42 weeks 2 days
She's going in a different direction. I'm not sure if this is a valid experiment or not. Or if since I wished to see her going the opposite way I did.
27 August 2005
4 years 16 weeks
If the claim is valid I tend more to be right brained. At high speed I find it difficult to see the dancer turn anti-clockwise (though I succeed sometimes). At low speed I can see both ways easily at will (even toggling between half a turn each). One reason, I think, is that clockwise rotations assumes a perspective from the top, while anti-clockwise is from the bottom. (Considering that the figure looks like a toy, it is more natural for me to take a perspective from the top.) I am not sure if this is the mechanism that the test targets, but I doubt its validity. If possible I would like to see the report of whoever came up with the test.
14 February 2005
4 years 15 weeks
I see her going clockwise, making my right brain dominant. However, if I start reading the text on the screen (and thus using the left part of my brain) she starts to rotate counter clockwise. Quite fascinating!