Check out Susana’s New York Times Op Ed piece for the Gray Matter column, out today, on our recent research on how we use eye movements to see the world.

Out of the ten finalist competitors, the Best Illusion of the Year title went to “Rotation Generated by Translation”, an illusion developed by a team of mathematicians and illusion creators from Meiji University in Japan.

Think that your eyes are bigger than your stomach? Well, actually, yes… they are.

The 9th annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest took place today, Monday May 13th, in the Naples Philharmonic Hall in Florida.

The wrath that AM—the sentient supercomputer in Ellison’s tale, as in “I think therefore I AM”—feels for humans is god-like in its scope. AM has annihilated humanity, and kept five survivors to amuse itself in an endless cat-and-mouse game which only AM can win. But how likely is it really that a sentient machine would turn against humankind?

Neuroscience can be lots of fun, but perhaps even more so when researchers study the brain’s Laughter Perception Network. In a new study researchers found that the brain responds differently to fMRI imaging of ticklish versus socially complex laughter.

Here’s how you make a rabbit-duck in real life (death?) with a little help from taxidermy.

I’ve lost 45 pounds, but it doesn’t feel as though my face is getting thinner. Instead, I feel that it’s simply returning to normal, which is weird since I haven’t been thin since I was a late-stage teenager.

Synesthesia is when you experience more than one sensory perception in response to stimulation of a single sensory modality. Often, people see numbers as having colors (even when they are uncolored physically, they see specific replicable colors matched to numbers. Estimates are as much as 5% of the population have some degree of synesthesia.

The Jaunt explores the limits of sustained sensory deprivation on the mind, with just a little bit of gore thrown in for added effect. We’re talking about Stephen King, after all.