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This Image Can Break Your Brain

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clock-iconPUBLISHEDFebruary 1, 2015

This Image Can Break Your Brain

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By Grid_for_McCollough_effect.png: Android Mouse derivative work: Urutseg (Grid_for_McCollough_effect.png) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

We all might have seen some things during our time surfing the web, but have you ever heard of an image that can literally change the way your mind functions?

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Have a look at this video by Tom Scott discussing the McCollough effect

 

 

(Some of you are going to go do it anyway, but seriously, please don't try this at home.)
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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHEDFebruary 1, 2015

Written by Danielle Andrew

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