![]() Surprisingly, there are still people silly enough to forecast the future using these outdated zodiac signs. While Australian aborigines saw emus in the sky, the Greeks were able to see an entire zodiac with Leo, Pisces, Sagittarius, Aries, Scorpio and so on. But they also did use these stars as maps to guide travel across long distances, way before compasses were invented. Right from our early ancestors who looked at the sky, they had a fervent imagination, seeing animals and humans in star constellations. This is something exploited by a worshiper. In the latest issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, the researchers, with the assistance of neuroscientist Josef Parvizi, show that mild electrical stimulation of pFus and mFus caused a test subject’s perception of faces to be instantly distorted.īut an overactive brain can also lead to Pareidolia. By building on these findings, they’ve offered some of the most compelling evidence to date of the fusiform’s role in facial recognition. ![]() In 2010, Stanford neuroscientists Kalanit Grill-Spector and Kevin Weiner discovered two nerve clusters in the fusiform gyrus - dubbed pFus and mFus - that respond more strongly to faces than they do to inanimate objects or other body parts. Damage to the fusiform area, is known to give rise to prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder (more commonly known as “face blindness”) characterized by the inability to recognize faces. Functional MRI, positron emission tomography, and other brain-imaging studies, for example, have shown that the fusiform gyri and the inferior temporal gyri light up when a person is shown pictures of faces, or objects resembling faces. Scientists have traced our ability to perceive faces to a few key regions of the brain. Psychologists have used this to design Rorschach tests to understand a person’s personality characteristics and emotional functioning. Our brains are designed to see human-like likenesses and forms wherever possible. Either way, the Badlands Guardian is a remarkable feature.One of the skills which differentiate humans from other species is the overactive brain which sees order and design where nothing exists. The Badlands Guardian is an example of the hollow face illusion. Like numerous geoglyphs across the world the Badlands Guardian can only be seen from above (Figure 3).Īlthough it is likely that nature conspired to produce this phenomenon by the interplay of countless random events, it is not impossible that a pre-existing landform could have been modified in specific ways to produce this face. Figure 3 The Badlands Guardian is not visible at ground level. This would not be the case if it were oriented in another direction. ![]() Figure 2 Appearance at noon on the summer solstice (left), Equinox (middle), and winter solstice (right).Įven more remarkable, the alignment of the feature to north and to the path of the sun is such that the feature maintains a consistent appearance at noon over the course of the year (Figure 2). That it is aligned to north and depicts the indigenous people would seem to be an unlikely coincidence. That one of these formations is oriented to north is not unusual in itself. There are perhaps hundreds or even thousands of similar badlands formations in North America. Second, the formation is aligned to north. Or, I was calm, until a large snake in the tough grass beside the narrow trail reared up. That it appears to represent the people native to the area is an interesting coincidence. Signs at trail heads in the Badlands National Park warn of snakes in the grass. Although the feature is thought to be the result of erosional processes there is much about it that is unusual.įirst is the visual form itself – that of a human figure, similar in appearance to the indigenous people from this part of Canada, wearing a headdress. ![]() This feature known as the Badlands Guardian was first discovered in Google Earth imagery in 2005. Twenty-five miles east of the town of Medicine Hat in Alberta Canada is a landform that resembles a face looking due west. Figure 1 The Badlands Guardian is barely evident in Alberta’s earliest air photos taken in 1949-1951. This series of articles discusses three surface features that resemble faces: a strange landform in Alberta Canada known as the Badlands Guardian that was discovered in 2005, a carved stone formation found by Daniel Ruzo on the Marcahuasi Plateau in Peru in the 1950s, and the Face on Mars, a mile-long structure on the surface of Mars first imaged by a Viking orbiter spacecraft in 1976. ![]()
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