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BehindTheMedspeak: Do you see what I see?

For as long as I can remember I've been able to voluntarily see two images of things right in front of me, each image from one eye.

If I close my left eye, the image on the right instantly disappears; same with my right eye and the image on the left.

Open both eyes and the two images are right there in front of me again, side by side, each crystal clear, equally "real."

These aren't stills: all the movement that's taking place in front of me is happening in both views, just with different perspectives.

This isn't double vision, where a person sees two identical images; nor is it blurred vision.

Neither is it parallax, the apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from two different points.

I've never been able to figure out what it means or how to take advantage of this capability.

I wonder if this is somehow related to something I discovered back when I was in college: I applied to be a paid subject in a psychology experiment in which they recorded my EEG while I looked at various images as well as no images, with my eyes open and closed, with the lights on and in pitch black.

The guy running the study asked me after my session if I would be interested in being a full-time subject during the summer.

He said that my ability to generate alpha brain waves while looking at images was extremely unusual.

I declined because it was so boring just sitting there.

I later discovered the professor was very well funded by the Defense Department.

All The Gold Ever Mined

From Visual Capitalist: "All of the world's gold ever mined would make up a cube 72 feet on a side. It it were all melted, it would fit within the confines of an Olympic-size swimming pool.

More (much!) here.

World's Most Technical Butter Dish

At first glance I thought Thomas Heatherwick had turned his attention to the kitchenware space.

TechnoDolts©®™will please move along, nothing to see here.

From websites:

Buttermate™

Measure and store butter easily in this plastic dispenser.

Just insert a stick of butter and move the slider.

Markings for cups, Tbsps., tsps., and pats.

Stainless steel blade cuts tidily.

Hinged lid closes for storage.

Includes replacement blade.

2"L x 2.25"W x 6.25"H.

Dishwasher safe.

$15.91.