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Ze Frank's web playroom. Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see. Video#p=ic0tqu9zmj. Types of Skills Everyone Should Know – Video – Top 100 Important Skills. It’s that dreaded moment—when you flush, and the water (and everything in it) starts rising instead of flushing away. But no need to panic. Here are a few options to break up the clog yourself if you can’t get a plumber and don’t have a plunger. First, RESIST the urge to flush again. Turn off the water valve, located near the floor behind the toilet. If you still have room in the toilet, pour in a gallon of hot (not boiling) water. (You may have to scoop some water out first if the bowl level is too high.) The heat and force should help turn the blockage into smaller bits. If you have a half-filled bowl, pour a cup of baking soda into it.

For physical breakup of the blockage, untwist and extend a wire hanger and poke around in there. Learn More: The One Surefire Way To Unclog a Toilet. 15 Styles of Distorted Thinking. Video#p=il499v4ust. How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci. Edit Article Cultivating CuriosityThinking ScientificallyPracticing Creativity Edited by LifeOptimizer.org, Krystle, Teresa, Sondra C and 28 others Leonardo da Vinci was the ultimate Renaissance man: an accomplished scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician, and writer. Whether you want to cultivate curiosity, creativity, or scientific modes of thought, using Leonardo Da Vinci as a role model is an excellent idea.

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The blue and the green. Via my evil twin Richard Wiseman comes one of the best color optical illusions I have ever seen. The original was apparently posted on Buzzhunt Akiyoshi Kitaoka’s incredible optical illusion website: You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color.

At first I thought Richard was pulling our collective legs, being a trickster of high magnitude. Like I said, incredible! The reason they look different colors is because our brain judges the color of an object by comparing it to surrounding colors. See? The overall pattern is a spiral shape because our brain likes to fill in missing bits to a pattern. This is why I tell people over and over again: you cannot trust what you see even with your own eyes. So the next time someone swears they saw Jesus, or a UFO, or a ghost, show them this picture. Visual Thinking. Video#p=dh5kid4pb7. Intellectual. Intelligence collective. BrainGym. Thinking & Learning.

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