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"It’s an optical illusion.
The image is not objectively “spinning” in one direction or the other. It is a two-dimensional image that is simply shifting back and forth. But our brains did not evolve to interpret two-dimensional representations of the world but the actual three-dimensional world. So our visual processing assumes we are looking at a 3-D image and is uses clues to interpret it as such. Or, without adequate clues it may just arbitrarily decide a best fit - spinning clockwise or counterclockwise. And once this fit is chosen, the illusion is complete - we see a 3-D spinning image
By looking around the image, focusing on the shadow or some other part, you may force your visual system to reconstruct the image and it may choose the opposite direction, and suddenly the image will spin in the opposite direction."
Article de wikipedia sur les hémisphères cérébraux.
"Thanks for your feedback. We are absolutely looking at adding multiple languages and have plans afoot for add French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch already scheduled for the summer.
We have also to think about the interfacing for this. Users would obviously have to tell us which languages they like to view, but do you think it would be preferable to mix in all their selected languages into a single view or keep each language separate so the user could tab between them?
We will obviously have to separate things our in our first implementation until we can teach our system to understand how to match context across languages, but do you think this extra effort would be worth while?
Thanks again.
What is so undemocratic about special interests? Aren’t special interests usually groups of citizens who care about an issue?
– Matthew Moran
Nothing is undemocratic about special interests. The undemocratic and corrupting part is when members of Congress become so dependent upon raising money that their attention gets focused upon not what their district wants, but on what those who would fund their campaign want. And of course, that’s not all special interests. It is the subset of special interests who have the capacity to leverage their support into significant campaign funding.
This is, in my view, corruption. And it only gets worse when you recognize that it is affecting not just members of Congress. Just about everyone in Washington today depends upon keeping the system as it is. Staffers on Capitol Hill move increasingly quickly to take jobs in lobbyist firms. Members and bureaucrats do the very same thing. The result is that most with any power in government are keen not to disappoint the lobbyists who come to call upon them. For the lobbyists who plead with them today will become their bosses tomorrow.