PsychWorld

Sometimes looking at a work of art from the right angle can make all the difference. In the art installations shown here, building interiors and exteriors have been painted in various ways to make them look like patterns have been superimposed on top of them. However, this effect is only seen when looking at the space from the correct angle.

What can piles of junk be used for? Apparently, some pretty neat sculptures.

From pieces of scrap metal, to piles of household trash, to mummified animals, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have taken many pounds of nondescript rubbish and shined light on them, literally, to create what’s known as “shadow art.”

If you enjoy optical illusions, it’s likely you’ve seen M.C. Escher’s famous drawings of impossible buildings, with stairs that go upward without end and channels of water that continuously flow downward. But have you ever seen these impossible scenarios in three dimensions?

We like to think we have it under control. After all, we are rational human beings, so every action we take has a rational reason behind it. Yet, if we look deeper, we will find that the more we try to rationalize our behavior, the more wrong our explanation becomes…

Today is Monday, yesterday was Sunday, before that it was Saturday, three days since Friday… If you haven’t seen the infamous Rebecca Black Friday video, you’ve probably heard about it via your friends on Facebook or Twitter. Since uploading the “worst video ever made” in February, this 13-year-olds video has gotten over 80 MILLION views and millions of comments / spoofs / parodies / tweets, most of them beyond mean.

Below are a set of four images rendered in only two colors—black and white. Superficially, the images look like a set of inkblots with no rhyme or reason, but they’re actually concrete images representing various things (scenes, people, etc.). See if you can figure out what each image depicts.

Watch the below video as the water flows up the waterfall!

Do the dots in the image below look like they’re raised or depressed to you?

What about in this image?

Created by American wildlife artist Rusty Rust, this painting shows a Bengal tiger standing majestically in a bamboo forest. But there’s a reason why this week’s illusion is called “The Hidden Tiger.” See if you can find it in the painting.

You may have noticed that during debates and arguments, some people tend to get loud. A recent study suggests that the loud ones are less secure in their arguments. The article explores whether shaking a belief would make a person more likely to advocate and proselytize—and not less likely to do so, as one would intuitively conclude. The findings are surprising.