Archive for October, 2007

Spinning Lady Optical illusion

A few months ago, I came across the optical illusion below  on Mighty Optical Illusion. It is possible to see the lady spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise:

 Then last week an Australian newspaper posted an article that states this optical illusion can be used as a Right brain VS Left Brain test:

THE Right Brain vs Left Brain […]

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A great list of Dystopian Movies

snarkerati published a great list of 50 Dystopian Movies. Their definition of a dystopia is:

A dystopia is a fictional society that is the antithesis or complete opposite of a utopia, an ideal world with a perfect social, political and technological infrastructure. Therefore a dystopia is an imaginary place or state in which the condition of […]

What leads to success?

Here is another great talk from TED: It a 3 minutes answer to the question "What leads to success?". It can be summarize by the picture below:

The full video description followed by the YouTube link is below:

Why do people succeed? An unmissable 3-min. talk from the TED Conference on the real secrets of success (Hint: […]

Hans Rosling is a genius of statistics. He knows how to bring out insights from boring statistics. The following video show one of his presentation at TED:

In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He shows us the next generation of his Trendalyzer […]