Watch the below video on the McGurk Effect and it will literally mess with your mind. The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon which demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. It suggests that speech perception is multimodal, that is, that it involves information from more than one sensory modality.

Amazon just plopped down $500 million for the owners of Diaper.com. Expanding its online retail empire, Amazon.com Inc. said Monday it is buying Quidsi, the owner of Diapers.com and Soap.com, for $500 million in cash.

A series of posters and broasdsides collectively titled Avoid Eye Contact, most of which lean in a darkly humorous dystopian direction. They are artifacts from the Brave New Homeland. “You may be at risk for extermination, redemption, extinction, or salvation. Do not leave your body unattended at any time.”

I know I shouldn’t laugh but, when you are playing this close to each other, what did they think was going to happen?

A contestant wanted to show the crowd her flexibility, but she ended up showing them a bit more