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🇺🇦 Hello Morftenighter!
New week, new ocean: I greet you today from Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
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Traveling to meet my colleagues again after two years of being grounded feels really good. But unfortunately, it also throws a wrench into my writing and photo-making routines. So here's something for me to work on.
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Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
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I knew nothing about Costa Rica until last week. Now I want to go back.
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The illusion of reality
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Someone shared this image on Twitter. Can you believe that the two school buses are actually identical?
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The perspective tells our brain that the front bus is further away. Therefore, it must be larger than the rear one to be seen as the same size.
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Reading about this led me to learn about the Moon illusion responsible for the fact we see the Moon as larger when low on the horizon, which is surprisingly not fully explained yet.
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Optical illusions are quite common, essentially because our brain has to work with quite low-fi hardware (our eyes), low bandwidth, and lag. Therefore it anticipates, interprets, and augments our perception.
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No wonder it is hard to get people to agree on anything.
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That's it for today! You can find more of my stuff on paolo.blog, and if you think that someone you know could enjoy Morfternight, the newsletter to share, please forward it to them or send them this link to subscribe.
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Morfternight, the newsletter that ends here!
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