200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The Dress: A Crisis of the Mind
The dress is a beautiful fantastic understandable relatable lesson in what is the truth and how to brains make sense of it. i can vouch for this myself because in reporting the story i went to ny u sat down with a neuroscientist who has the dress saw it myself in person and i can tell you it's black and blue but that's almost irrelevant Because the photo the infamous photo in your brain in other people's brains in general is not black and blue and it's also not white and gold and that makes this image a rare thing indeed one cognitive scientist told me that maybe one in ten billion images out there in the wild is what they would call perfectly ambiguous. thanks to some
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