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  2. Polybius (urban legend) - Wikipedia

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    Polybius. (urban legend) An alleged start screen, attached to an article on coinop.org [1] Polybius is a fictitious 1981 arcade game that features in an urban legend. [2] The legend describes the game as part of a government-run crowdsourced psychology experiment based in Portland, Oregon. Gameplay supposedly produced intense psychoactive and ...

  3. Playtest (Black Mirror) - Wikipedia

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    Playtest" is the second episode of the third series; [4] all six episodes in the series were released on Netflix simultaneously on 21 October 2016. As Black Mirror is an anthology series, each installment is standalone. [5] ". Playtest" was placed second partly because Halloween was soon after the release date, [5] though series creator Charlie ...

  4. Einstein's thought experiments - Wikipedia

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    Einstein's 1909 arguments for the wave–particle duality of light were based on a thought experiment. Einstein imagined a mirror in a cavity containing particles of an ideal gas and filled with black-body radiation, with the entire system in thermal equilibrium. The mirror is constrained in its motions to a direction perpendicular to its surface.

  5. Striking Vipers - Wikipedia

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    List of episodes. " Striking Vipers " is the first episode of the fifth series of the anthology series Black Mirror. It was written by series creator Charlie Brooker and directed by Owen Harris. The episode was released on Netflix, along with the rest of series five, on 5 June 2019. The episode follows two old friends, Danny Parker (Anthony ...

  6. Mirror test - Wikipedia

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    The hamadryas baboon is one primate species that fails the mirror test.. The mirror test—sometimes called the mark test, mirror self-recognition (MSR) test, red spot technique, or rouge test—is a behavioral technique developed in 1970 by American psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr. as an attempt to determine whether an animal possesses the ability of visual self-recognition. [1]

  7. Marina Abramović - Wikipedia

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    Marina Abramović (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Абрамовић, pronounced [marǐːna abrǎːmovitɕ]; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. [ 1 ]

  8. Psychic staring effect - Wikipedia

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    Psychic staring effect. The psychic staring effect (sometimes called scopaesthesia) is the claimed extrasensory ability of a person to detect being stared at. The idea was first explored by psychologist Edward B. Titchener in 1898 after students in his junior classes reported being able to "feel" when somebody was looking at them, even though ...

  9. Black Mirror (2017 video game) - Wikipedia

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    Adventure. Mode (s) Single-player. Black Mirror is a 2017 gothic adventure horror video game developed by KING Art Games and published by THQ Nordic. It is a reboot of The Black Mirror series, a trilogy of point-and-click games for Microsoft Windows, so is sometimes called Black Mirror IV or Black Mirror 4.