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December 26, 2010
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November 27, 2010
If I Were A Bro (Beyonce Parody)
Frat boy humor:
Popularity: 90% [?]
November 11, 2010
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October 5, 2010
David Blaine – A Lecture
Magician David Blaine explains how he held his breath for over 17 minutes:
Popularity: 72% [?]
September 10, 2010
25 Random Things (Miley Cyrus Parody)
A parody of “7 Things”, about the 25 Random Things Facebook craze:
Popularity: 64% [?]
September 2, 2010
A Fascinating Experiment
Take this quick selective attention test:
Did you see the gorilla? About half the people who watch it don’t notice it. This test was created by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, and you can read about it (and much more) in their book “The Invisible Gorilla”.
Now that this test if famous, they decided to do a follow up study to see if they could trick people who already knew about the gorilla. Here’s their new test:
This shows that even if you are expecting the unexpected, many times you still won’t notice it.
The Door Study is another interesting study they did, where a guy asks a pedestrian for directions, and then secretly is switched with someone else. Amazingly, half the pedestrians don’t notice the change:
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August 25, 2010
The Facebook Movie (The Social Network)
In case you haven’t heard, there is a big new movie soon to be released about how Facebook was started. Here’s a preview:
Several amateur filmmakers have created parodies of this movie trailer, such as this one about YouTube.com:
and this one about Twitter:
and this one about eBay:
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