Natural perspective is a non-standard perspective that better captures some elements onto a photograph. In contrast to linear perspective, which warps images around a central focal point, natural perspective captures objects further away closer to how we see them. But it’s not a perfect perspective. Natural perspective rarely keeps lines as straight as we perceive them, making them crooked or curved — a problem linear perspective doesn’t have. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
