“Only Artists Were Not Fooled”: Delacroix’s Preparatory Drawings on Tracing Paper

Humans are not fooled by size illusions in attractiveness judgements☆

Could signallers use size contrast illusions to dishonestly exaggerate their attractiveness to potential mates? Using composite photographs of women from three body mass index (BMI) categories designed to simulate small groups, we show that target women of medium size are judged as thinner when surrounded by larger women than when surrounded by thinner women. However, attractiveness judgements ...

Children's drawings of headache pain were accurate for diagnosing migraine.

D e s c r i p t i o n o f t e s t a n d d i a g n o s t i c s t a n d a r d Children were given a blank, unlined, white piece of paper (8.5 × 11 inches) and a number 2 pencil with an eraser. They were asked to draw a picture of themselves having a headache, showing where the pain was, what the pain felt like, and any other changes or symptoms that occurred before or during the headache. When ch...

How to Modernize Your Paper Engineering Drawings

International Data Corporation and Document Management magazine estimate that there are more than eight billion drawings worldwide, of which fewer than 15 percent are in a Computer Aided Design (CAD) format. This leaves an astonishing 85 percent of drawings maintained in non-electronic format, mainly paper-based engineering archives. Considering that each successive stage in a product cycle—des...

Focus On "Only" And "Not"

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