Now do urban, suburban, exurban, rural splits.

You are correct! I was undercaffienated.

Gotcha

I thought they did, but collaquial use of them is the same, and the pronunciation is close. Why is it the Arabian term and not mimicry of the American pronunciation of a term that’s been in the language since the 1700s?

Just wanted to be sure I wasn’t missing anything. North Americans are fiercely enamored of an unaccented alphabet.

In French the meaning is literally “see there”.

Because of the missing accent? It’s an Anglicized spelling.

I don’t know about the methodology. As an example there was a pretty well known paper in my field that had two different citations. I asked my department chair about it once. He told me that he was actually responsible for it - he had made an error in citing the paper in a high profile report. He said you can see who just copied the citation from him or someone who had. People who actually read that paper copied it correctly.

I have other examples of this kind of thing. The point is that I often look at the cites before I read a paper (partly vanity). If there is an unfamiliar cite in there, particularly if it’s an important point, I am going to go look it up. That’s the way that science works. The idea that there is a giant citation falsification machine out there is just ridiculous. Anybody who cites something important is going to be found out the moment the rest of us go looking for the source. If you are citing something trivial why bother?

I’m going to plead temporary insanity - I swear I saw a big face when I put it across the room. Now I don’t. 😄

I think it’s a pattern recognition issue. We have brain areas specialized for facial recognition. There is a cognitive dissonance where something is almost but not quite a face. This is distinct from pareidolia where the pattern system recognizes that something resembles, but is definitely not a face.

There’s a little 😺?

The most amazing part of this film for me is that it was done by the Toronto Second City crew. That means it stars Eugene Levy, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, and Harold Ramis. Just outstanding cheese.

To my eyes the closest leg of the stool appears to be sitting inside the brazier, and the brazier is underneath the stool. The front two legs of the stool are doing that thing where one appears to be further back on the seat, but the leg contacts the floor closer to the viewer. The thing should fall over.

Current vehicle is 206k and going strong. Early Acura.

Can somebody explain what in Escher is going on here?

Here’s another example. Look at this grating from several feet away.

For those struggling get rid of the high frequency information. Easiest way is to increase the viewing distance.

That’s a hooded rat not a mouse.

Please sir, can we stop winning?

What kind of wattage?