19 posts tagged “interesting oddities”
This clock is very slow and has a "year hand" instead of an hour hand. So it tells you how old you are and when to die.
My question is: If you set this to your own life and the clock battery fails or it falls and breaks, what happens to you?
Papa John’s has received more than 1 billion online orders since it began offering the option to customers in 2001.
This is a very interesting article that examines how mirrors alter our notions of self and the way we perceive ourselves within our environment. The whole article is very interesting and worth a read but I've pulled out a couple of pieces that I thought were especially compelling:
"The link between self-awareness and elaborate sociality may help explain why the few nonhuman species that have been found to recognize themselves in a mirror are those with sophisticated social lives."
"Our research shows that people, on average, resolve that ambiguity in their favor, forming a representation of their image that is more attractive than they actually are."
