The greatest calamity in the history of science was the failure of Archimedes to invent positional notation. Carl Friedrich Gauss

Fantastico.
Sempre via http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/.

- http://mbthompson.com/research/ -

" Like many interesting scientific discoveries, this one was an accident. Sean Murphy, an undergraduate student, was working alone in the lab on a set of faces for one of his experiments. He aligned a set of faces at the eyes and started to skim through them. After a few seconds, he noticed that some of the faces began to appear highly deformed and grotesque. He looked at the especially ugly faces individually, but each of them appeared normal or even attractive. We called it the “Flashed Face Distortion Effect” and wanted to share it with the world, so we put it on YouTube. "

via http://scienceblogs.com/principles/