Tactile illusions: Seven ways to fool your sense of touch - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/special/tactile-illusions
5 Ways Your Brain Is Messing With Your Head | Cracked.com
http://www.cracked.com/article_17103_5-ways-your-brain-messing-with-your-head.html

5 Ways Your Brain Is Messing With Your Head. Who can you trust?!

una imagen casi hipnotica que hace que uno vea todo muy raro luego de verlo 10 minutos

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I grew up like Athena—covered with playing cards instead of armor—and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

Ricky Jay profile in the New Yorker recommended by Whet Moser

Terrific profile of magician and historian Ricky Jay, and "the virtues of skeleton men, fasting impostors, and cannonball catchers".

A 1993 profile on sleight-of-hand artist and erudite Ricky Jay.

A profile of Ricky Jay from the New Yorker. April 1993.

If you’ve ever felt like you go a little cross-eyed after taking a peek at an optical illusion, then you know they can be a pretty intense phenomenon. What your eyes perceive when looking at one of these images is actually a visual illusion; you see

This is great!! Found via Mental Floss.

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