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There’s a road in Scotland where if you place a car in neutral facing downhill, it will begin to roll back up the hill instead of rolling forward. But how? Known as a gravity hill, magnetic hill, mystery hill, electric brae, or gravity road, this half-mile stretch forms an unusual …

There are 12 Dots But You Can’t See Them All at Once An optical illusion from 2000 by Jacques Ninio has recently gone viral after being posted to Facebook yesterday by psychology professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka. Entitled Ninio’s Extinction Illusion, there are 12 black dots at the intersections of this image …

Peter Kogler, an internationally renowned Austrian artist who lives and works in Vienna, has hypnotized the world with his latest psychedelic installations at the ING Art Center in Brussels. Using paint and projections, he makes simple galleries, lobbies and transit centers look distorted, warped and twisted. Born in Innsbruck in …