Tag Archives: pareidolia
To see faces where there are none
This week in “neither university press offices nor prestigious journals know what they’re doing”: a professor emeritus at Ohio University who claimed he had evidence of life on Mars, and whose institution’s media office crafted a press release without thinking … Continue reading
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Tagged arXiv, Björn Brembs, conspiracy theories, Elisabeth Bik, image manipulation, impact factor, Ingelfinger rule, journal rank, Nature Medicine, Ohio State University, open knowledge, pareidolia, peer review, preprints, research fraud, William Romoser
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Gigernama / 'A man dressed in black with a tube under his arm'
On May 12, 2014, about half a week before the Lok Sabha election votes were to be counted, ahead of the result that would catapult the BJP to power with an overwhelming majority in the lower house of Parliament, H.R. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alejandro Jodorowsky, Dark Star, depression, horror, HR Giger, Li Tobler, Necronomicon, nightmares, pareidolia, perinatal, xenomorph
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Gravitational lensing and facial recognition
The galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 shows an example of strong gravitational lensing – and an optical illusion called pareidolia. Continue reading
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Tagged algorithmic pareidolia, DeepDream, facial recognition, fusiform face area, Google, image processing, LSD, neural networks, pareidolia, SDSS J1038+4849, social threat perception, strong gravitational lensing, visual cortex
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