How to Create a Mind-Boggling Optical Illusion

Sci-Tech Discovery Center - Optical Illusion

Sci-Tech Discovery Center at Home Experiments for Kids

 

Our brains are trained to look at patterns from a very early age. It’s how we are able to distinguish our parents from other people as well as being able to spot dangerous situations. When you see the long edge compared to the short edge of another piece, our brains quickly try to analyze the situation and conclude that the pieces are different sizes. In the following video, you can see how we transform paper into a mind-boggling, brain-fooling optical illusion!

Your Wedding Dress: Keep it or Not?

How to Decide Whether to Keep Your Wedding Gown or Not

Weddings are beautiful and so are the wedding dresses worn by the brides. Every bride dreams of her wedding day and often spends untold hours and money to find that perfect dress. A few years ago I went shopping with my niece for her wedding gown. She made it a family event, inviting her sisters, her parents, and me, her crazy, fun aunt. In fact, now that I think about it, I went shopping with all three of my nieces to find the perfect dresses for their wedding days.

Now that a few years have passed, I visited with each of my nieces about what their plans are for the wedding dress they will never wear again.  I posed three questions to them: How are you currently storing your wedding dress; why are you keeping it; and if you inherit your mother’s wedding dress, what would you do with it?

Spring Gardening Tip from the Dallas Arboretum

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What to plant for Spring in your garden and a few tips for your next trip to the Dallas Arboretum

 

We were planning a trip to the Dallas Arboretum for the Spring Blooms and the Artscape show this past weekend when I happened to catch a news brief on Friday morning. The Fox 4 reporter asked the senior director Jimmy Turner about what “heat-friendly” plants to plant now and he started laughing! Remember that it is only March and we could still be in for some cold weather. Now is still a good time to plant cool weather loving plants! Watch the interview here for his spring gardening tip.