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Boy (6-8 years old) sitting upside down on chair, legs crossed, smiling

Experiments show how quickly we adjust to seeing everything upside-down

Source: The Guardian

Imagine spending every minute of every day seeing everything upside down. Simple tasks like pouring a glass of juice would be far from automatic, but only at first.

This entry was posted in How We See Things and tagged Health & Medicine, Science & Nature on March 1, 2017 by Mikki Gibson.

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