To see faces where there are none
This week in "neither university press offices nor prestigious journals know what they're doing": a professor emeritus at Ohio University who claimed he had evidence of life on Mars, and…
pareidolia
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Gigernama / 'A man dressed in black with a tube under his arm'
On May 12, 2014, about half a week before the Lok Sabha election votes were to be counted, ahead of the result that would catapult the BJP to power with an overwhelming majority in the lower house of…
Gravitational lensing and facial recognition
The galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 shows an example of strong gravitational lensing – and an optical illusion called pareidolia.…