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Headless skeptic

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Jun 29, 2009 9:00 PMNov 5, 2019 7:18 AM

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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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