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October 9, 2011. ( 2011-10-09) –. March 4, 2022. ( 2022-03-04) Brain Games is an American popular science television series that explores cognitive science by focusing on illusions, psychological experiments, and counterintuitive thinking. The series debuted on National Geographic in 2011 as a special. [ 1] Its return as an original series in ...
My Wife and My Mother-in-Law. " My Wife and My Mother-in-Law " is a famous ambiguous image, which can be perceived either as a young woman or an old woman (the " wife " and the " mother-in-law ", respectively). The young woman appears with her face turned away from the viewer while the old woman appears in profile, so the part of the drawing ...
List of films. Film. Year (s) Description. The 3 Worlds of Gulliver. 1960. The US fantasy film is an adaptation of the 18th-century novel Gulliver's Travels, and features a voyage during which Dr. Gulliver is perceived as a giant by the small Lilliputian people, and is later perceived as small by the giant Brobdingnagian people.
The Vanishing Lady is a window display created by Charles Morton for a Sacramento department store in 1898. L. Frank Baum celebrated it in 1900 in a book of window decorations published the same year as his novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . The illusion consists of a bust of a living woman, appearing above a pedestal, then seeming to disappear ...
English. Gerald's Game is a 2017 American psychological horror thriller film directed and edited by Mike Flanagan, and screenplay written by Flanagan with Jeff Howard. It is based on Stephen King 's 1992 novel of the same name, long thought to be unfilmable. [ 1] The film stars Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood as a married couple who arrive at ...
Spinning dancer. The Spinning Dancer, also known as the Silhouette Illusion, is a kinetic, bistable, animated optical illusion originally distributed as a GIF animation showing a silhouette of a pirouetting female dancer. The illusion, created in 2003 by Japanese web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara, [ 1][ 2] involves the apparent direction of motion ...
The Imitation Game is a 2014 American period biographical thriller film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. The film's title quotes the name of the game cryptanalyst Alan Turing proposed for answering the question "Can machines think?", in his 1950 seminal ...
Netflix. Release. October 23, 2020. ( 2020-10-23) The Queen's Gambit is a 2020 American coming-of-age period drama television miniseries based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis. The title refers to the "Queen's Gambit", a chess opening. The series was written and directed by Scott Frank, who created it with Allan Scott, who ...