…ut your ability to notice other stuff. That’s what the researchers say—as you’ll probably confirm for yourself if you follow the rest of the links in this article. 4 Here’s another cool video, this one from www.quirkology.com. This is the “Amazing Colour-Changing Card Trick.” Don’t blame me for colour. The researcher does not have an American accent so he must be forgiven for adding the gratuitous British U to… Continue reading →

…tudents all over the country. Along with beginner and intermediate to advanced work with firearms, my classes featured hands-on opportunities to try on many different holsters and alternate carry methods. I worked to provide accurate descriptions in plain language, compassionate instruction, and usable shooting techniques that work well with many different body types, physical abilities, and lifestyle choices. In addition to defensive handgun… Continue reading →

…n do not detect large changes to the things we do see, and that we may not even see even a large item to which we are not paying attention. In their paper, the authors presented several studies of divided visual attention to examine “inattentional blindness for complex objects and events in dynamic scenes.” In plain English, they studied and then tried to explain how so many people could fail to notice such an obvious thing as a… Continue reading →