I found this in my girlfriend’s bathroom. We’ve been looking at it for an hour now and still can’t figure out what it is.

appears that doesn’t match that pattern—especially something organic, irregular, or hard to identify—it immediately flags it as “out of place.”

And when something is out of place, the brain doesn’t start with calm curiosity.

It starts with caution.

That response is deeply rooted. Humans are wired to notice anomalies quickly because, historically, the continue reading …