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Is there something wrong with me or my brain? I looked through my legs in my living room and the distances and colors seemed the same as right side up.
I think you need to try outside so the distances are greater. Or it’s all a practical joke and you have to do it outside so people will laugh.
Informing everything in the scene, and establishing iconographically that it is indeed a scene of witchcraft, is the gesture of the witch who, bent on one knee, stares backwards at the world through her own legs. According to a contemporary German proverb those who adopted the pose would be sure to catch sight of the devil. This is perhaps the reason why the motif is also found among the monsters and devils who populate two widely separated versions of that most demonological of picture subjects, the temptation of St Anthony—those of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1490s) and Jacques Callot (1635).
So it was fascinating to learn from this news article that "There are also regions of Japan where the folklore says that one can see ghosts, the world of spirits and demons, or the future by looking upside down through one’s legs."
"The prize he was awarded was a large clock that was equipped with a hand that indicated the sixty-first second — the “leap second”—and minute and hour hands that puzzlingly indicated seconds. The prize money was $10 trillion, although the unit of currency was not US dollars but rather Zimbabwe dollars, which had been discontinued at the time he received the prize. In fact, the prize money was worth about ¥170." I lo…
Anyone with a vertical monitor can tell you that :)
Fantastic read! I'm so glad that there is recognition for these types of quirky research, rooted in humanism. I never heard of Ig Nobel Prizes before. ref. Ig Nobel Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize ref. Winners list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
They've been around since the early days of the internet, slightly younger than the Darwin awards. You're one of today's lucky 10,000. :)
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Well the Romans loved their false etymologies, so it seems fitting.
Can you explain? I didn't even know Romans thought about etymologies.
The problem is that many classical (and later) scholars, historians and poets were prone to uncritically repeating stories without doing any fact checking, or just making stuff up to fit the narrative. The same is true for their etymologies.
Socrates and Plutarch in particular have reputations for their imaginative etymologies.
This stuff seems more important than the prize indicates. It points to the physical body being as important as the mind's internal state when it comes to one's sense of self and the world around oneself. Also I like this statement: > "Higashiyama has misgivings about current-day psychology. Many studies place importance on overt, conscious actions like seeing and listening. And some psychologists conclude that people…
Is there something wrong with me or my brain? I looked through my legs in my living room and the distances and colors seemed the same as right side up.
Worked for me. Couldn’t it be something about the framing of the legs leading to a different processing of perspective?
They spend a significant portion of the game looking back between their legs, and in addition need to be able to judge accurately to hike the ball so the quarterback gets it correctly, especially when he is in the shotgun position.
> That is, the vertical measurement appeared longer than it is in reality. But when I had them view it while lying on their side, some of them reported that the vertical and the horizontal lengths looked the same. In other words, we discovered that when lying on one’s side, the horizontal-vertical vertical illusion does not occur Anyone with a vertical monitor can tell you that :)