## Week 2 - Not everything is what it seems

Not everything is what it seems.

A good ‘meme’ or illusion can intrigue you enough to make you want to share it with others and appreciate it’s weirdness, and if you spend any time on the internet, chances are that you have come across something that isn’t what it seems. There are also a lot of facts floating around the internet that aren’t true. Let’s talk about that.

Watch the videos below and answer the questions.

Science fact or Science Fiction

12:17 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbjlwEHxUZE

While watching:

1. Play along with the game in the video and tally your score.

| Science fact | Science ficiton
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After watching

2. Look up some science fact or science fiction of your own and explain why people think it is true but it really isn’t. My science fact or fiction:

Optical illusions

10:18 min Best of 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxTFGVp2R-8
11:21 min Best of 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-JSp5x3jCM

After watching:

1. Which of the optical illusions from the video struck you the most? Explain why.

2. Find an optical illusion and describe what is it that is special about the illusion. How does the artist trick you? What happens in the brain process? Include a picture/link in your answer.

3. Look up “optical illusions photography”. (Re)create an optical illusions and give a step by step tutorial. We will have some short presentations with your pictures in class on how you made the illusion and why it is an illusion/what’s not real about it.