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An optical illusion has been circulating online that claims to be able to tell you something about your personality based on ...

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We are often caught between anxiety over the future and remorse over the past. Yet philosophers teach that only the present ...

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Objects we can see are either sources of light themselves ... But that doesn’t mean the brain is actually flipping the picture “back”. Here’s why. While the light being interpreted ...