Back in May, the American space agency released the latest data on the number of asteroids going about their business in the cosmic vicinity of our planet. And there is an entire army of them, with 25,705 moving about at various distances from our planet. And those are the ones we know of.
The human brain’s tendency of creating familiar visual patterns where there are none is an amazing thing, one that has made possible the creation of countless works of art down the ages. The tendency is so important that they even have a name for it – pareidolia.
People tend to rejoice in the disclosure of a secret. Or, at the very least, media outlets have come to realize that news of “mysteries solved” and “hidden treasures revealed” generate traffic and clicks. So I’m never surprised when I see AI-assisted revelations about famous masters’ works of art go…
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