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The so-called Thatcher effect illustrates the phenomenon that certain features of a face are not recognised when the face is viewed upside down, despite obvious changes. The effect was named after former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as a photograph of her face was used to make this phenomenon most famous.
The Benary Cross was designed by Wilhelm Benary, a German psychologist, and shows the effect of belonging.
The illustration demonstrates the optical illusion that a chessboard pattern with perfectly even and straight horizontal and vertical lines, which are parallel and perpendicular to each other, looks like an irregularly skewed pattern.
In most cases, when a slice of bread with butter and jam falls off the table, it lands butter-side down on the floor, so you can't eat it and have to clean the floor. It's Murphy's Law, they say, after "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong".
You're just about to make a quick coffee and you're waiting for the water to heat up. But why does it seem to take longer when you watch the coffee machine?
Halftone illusion is a reprographic technique that simulates continuous colour tones using dots of different sizes with different distances between them.
Statistics prove that on average, no other hobby is spent more money per year than gardening.
