The purple six of spades
In 1955, researchers at MIT showed subjects playing cards with colors reversed — a red six of spades, a black four of hearts. Most did not see the anomalous cards. They reported normal ones. When exposure time extended, some became confused....
The patient, the monk, the scanner
In 1895, Freud sat across from a patient who was convinced her doctor was in love with her. He was not. But the conviction was total — she had assembled an airtight case from materials that existed only in the space between her history and his...