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Re-Discovering The Color Blue
Color Blindness

Re-Discovering The Color Blue

I wore blue-blocker sunglasses to see what the world looked like without blue. For exactly one

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A World Without Blue
Color Blindness Optical Illusions and Effects

A World Without Blue

I recently re-discovered classic BluBlocker sunglasses, and wondered what would happen if I wore them

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Shine Pig Season
Optical Illusions and Effects

Shine Pig Season

As the sun sets each summer evening, it sends a shimmering pig up the side

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Quality Time with an Inanimate Object
Geodes

Quality Time with an Inanimate Object

I have an inanimate object in my life: it is an unbroken Brazilian agate geode.

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Scratching the Surface of a Water-Filled Unbroken Geode
Geodes

Scratching the Surface of a Water-Filled Unbroken Geode

There is a finite amount of water on the earth, endlessly cycling through everywhere water

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Reversing the American Flag Optical Illusion
Optical Illusions and Effects

Reversing the American Flag Optical Illusion

“I’m a vexillologist,” a gentleman said to me on the BART train platform, “and I’ve

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Journey Through a Geode
Geodes

Journey Through a Geode

Exploring something fully sometimes requires destroying it, like the dissection of a cadaver or the

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Swimming in Puddles and Diving Down Drains with an Endoscopic Camera
Cameras

Swimming in Puddles and Diving Down Drains with an Endoscopic Camera

What hard-to-reach places can an inspection camera reveal? An inspection camera, also called an endoscope

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Transforming Temperature Into Light with a Thermal Camera
Cameras

Transforming Temperature Into Light with a Thermal Camera

The thermal camera is the fourth in my series of extra-sensory cameras (after underwater, micro, and

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Befriending the Aggressor
Cameras

Befriending the Aggressor

While gathering photos from my 2011 Bushnell hunting camera for my most recent post, I was overcome

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Artist Emily Wick’s work chronicles a quest to literally see the world in new ways. Her projects have been featured on KQED Arts and Medium. Subscribe to her Substack newsletter Have You Seen This Phenomenon?

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