Back in the 1970-80s, pop art using ultra-violet "black light" to generate brilliant fluorescent colours, used the illusion to make 3D pictures....
Look on YouTube for Japanese Puzzle Box Mechanism.
A lot of us on this site use Scrivener, a writer's app particularly suited to writing fiction. In the edit menu, there is "Sort by paragraphs"...
One of my characters, April, is blind. She appeared unexpectedly, standing in line behind my MC at the corner store. Early on she was taught...
Yeah, my high frequencies are going--old age. There is a wall of forest behind my house that acts a low-frequency reflector, further increasing...
Izzy, you've got things backwards. Long-wavelength sound doesn't have enough phase difference between the ears, so it is harder to localize....
Physiologically, the brain does its magic on the differences in arrival time of the sound waves to infer the position of the source. It might be...
Sorry, I misread beehoney's post. Somehow, I thought he was bragging about molesting her and she was denying it. But I don't think beehoney is...
I've spent my whole life in educational institutions, either as a student or a worker. The kind of douchebag @beehoney is describing always...
The worst macho guy I ever encountered was a visiting professor at the university where I used to work. A female student from Mexico in one of my...
For those of us who don't know, even skin-deep how stories work, some form of structure at least allows us to move from beginning to end. I gave...
Hi Jane, Have you tried Onelook Thesaurus? http://www.onelook.com/thesaurus/ It gives words that are related to the phrase you type in, often...
When I was pantsing I could sit down and write without a break. I used to get up a three or four o'clock in the night and write for an hour and...
massive mental block
There is an old standby that has survived decades: Thirty Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary by Norman Lewis and Wilfred Funk. Your friends will...
Separate names with a comma.
