With all the digital TV stations these days, why don't they put this on again. The video quality and jumpers might look dated, but the content is still great.
thank you so much! you are living treasures, and i wish you were still on tv. no quality like this anymore at all. i will indeed have fun with them, best science show on earth. thanks again!
Wiki seems to indicate that marketing executives thought that middle aged men shouldn't be presenting children's shows because it wouldn't resonate with the audience. So we get a bunch of hyperactive bumblefucks (and Derek) instead.
Cool yes, but also pretty aggravating, as it's the only one I can recall that I can't beat (as in, see the correct non-illusory way). Aurgh! (edit: Nevermind, finally was able to see it correctly at half speed and concentrating on watching just the longest end. That was satisfying.)
This is an example of your brain's tendency to "fill in the blanks" of known patterns. It's why optical illusions work so well, because your brain fills in missing data with what it expects to see. The only way to really see what's actually happening is to grow up in an environment where rectangles aren't common.
I used to love this show. From the 70's right through to the 80's. Such a long time ago. Before the internet and info on tap, we had shows like this to teach us. Thank you for the memories.
@@CuriosityShow Rob, is that really you? Thank you for all that wonderful content back in the day. I'm 61 now. A grandfather. And this little clip took me right back. I hope life has been good to you. Thank you again.
For me it started with the Ames window. The strange things it did to my brain were incredible. For a while. Eventually it didn't have the same effect it used to. I needed something stronger so I started to look for harder stuff. Long story short, now I need a new optical illusion every 20 minutes just to function. Take my advice and just don't start.
Rest Escher-ed that Illusions Anonymous and their twelve (or maybe 13 but just looks like 12...) step program can help you. One day at a time buddy, good luck!
I never get tired of this illusion, no matter how much I tried to say to my brain that the window it's actually going in circles, I still can't see it and that's what amaze me.
@@mohdsaqib4454 IThe Curiosity Show is an Australian educational children's television show produced from 1972 to 1990 and hosted by Rob Morrison and Deane Hutton. The show was produced by Banksia Productions in South Australia for the Nine Network. 500 episodes were produced. Frin Wikipedia.
Calmindigweed not really because most of the time our senses match up with reality (well what we nearly all agree is reality). This demonstration illustrates that sometimes our senses don’t tell the whole story and can be fooled.
warren WTF a pointless wandering rant that says nothing. Also, pro tip, stop mentioning nasa, as if that is some fait accompli, you don’t have to put any trust in nasa. People discovered the earth was round long before nasa existed.
Not just the kids, adults that somehow missed seeing back in the day is also amazed by it. I feel sorry for the millennials that missed this program the first time around.
This is the best illusion I’ve ever witnessed, simply because no matter how clearly explained it is, my brain does not allow me to see what’s actually happening. No matter how hard I try.
oHH, MATE, please, Please be careful how you use that word ! This is the curiosity show and when you use the word "Matter" carelessly , it can be misunderstood as a physical substance that occupies space which possesses mass mate... Please be more careful in the future there are young scientist's here, we are not lamen's and i'll thank you to not assume us as such The terminology you were looking for is because no matter = "because regardless" it doesn't matter = "it is of no concern" You gotta be more careful than that mate 😁
@@savnac No mate, I'm dead serious :P but thank you , good to see that you'll be more careful in the future i mean.... Who knows what could have happened, the world could've imploded or something I remember getting my mum to buy me a lab coat (this is 3rd grade mind you LOL) and i used to put it on while watching curiosity Good old days huh
@@savnac Mate, i bloody miss the old days huh ? Why can't we be young again and in 2nd grade ? Curiosity show was new Rubiks cube was new we still had marbles and the moonies and steelies were the coolest cabbage patch kids were a thing and agro on cartoon connection was the coolest bloke on telly, other than Animal on the muppet show of course we watched Mask and Transformers and He-Man and Ulysses 31 and Astro boy and Kimba the white lion and when Astro used to get hit by Bruton i used to think he was done for, i mean... the greatest robot in the world WAS LIKE A 2 EPISODE THING so i would race home from school to see if Astro would live LOL Close one... but yeah .. he pulled through :P Why did it go past so quickly Bloody good memories though When the world made more sense and all you needed as a kid was BMX bike and a skateboard and a pocket knife
I love the down-to-earth presentation, pedagogical pacing, and the lack of artifice and pretence. You only need a string from the sewing drawer. Tape. Paper. No editing tricks, no missed steps. This is an antidote to Instagram and tiktok.
Well-said. Whenever I make the fatal mistake of venturing on either place, I'm instantly assaulted with the very aggressive manifestation of the exact opposite of everything you just said.
I really wanted to be the guy who says, "I could see the window rotating the entire time.." but even when he put the pen through the window was just oscillating
You shouldn’t look at the window. Try focusing on the top horizontal line of the cardboard piece, the line whose vertices are linked to the strings. Now, observe it and focus on watching it turn clockwise, you should be able to see it clear
This was when there were quality, locally made TV shows for kids on the commercial stations. Entertaining, and educational. The presenters didn't talk down to their audience.
More than that... by speaking directly at the camera, the children feel like they are being spoken to. Makes it easier to use autocues, if used. I don't think so as their presentation outdoors is just as fluid and concise. The segment where Rob has a string going lying on the ground all the way around the earth and wants to know how much more string he needs to lift it two metres right around the earth. Hint: you don't need to know the size of the earth. :-) This segment has been uploaded by Dean and Rob already.
Deane and his co-presenters were from the Adelaide SciTech, a centre which has science displays and workshops for children. Every major city has a Scitech.
3:00 This is both amazing and scary at the same time. I know this is an illusion, i know how the illusion works, and yet my brain is still lying to me.. It makes me see something which is impossible, that facts that the pen is somehow magically rotation against the window and clipping through a solid object. It really makes you wonder what other things in life we cannot perceive correctly.
Hey, that is the logo of the 'new' Windows in background! On topic: This is a great kids channel, a channel to use your brain, love it! Why is everything flatten down these days, must be appear on TV again, it is good and fascinating.
The curiousity show was the best children's programme on Australian Television. I was in my late 20's when I first saw it. If I was home from work in time, I would always watch it.
Where was the 'of' in the first sentence?! IT'S GONE! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! IT CAN'T JUST NOT BE THERE!!! YOU MONSTER!!! ....wow i just replied to a year old comment....maybe i'm the monster.....hm......
When the piece is revolving, pen or no pen, just focus on the edge of the thin cardboard, and you'll see the edge coming towards you, past you, and revolving away...it's one way to remind your brain to pay attention.
I wouldn't be surprised if some magic trick is using this same illusion. This video is beyond amazing and eye opening. And btw I love the synthesizer sounds in this one. :D
I found a way to see how it actually spins. Just focus on the wide red end and look only at that. And keep in mind how that end looks. Now you should see it spin normally, as long as you keep focus on the edge.
Starting at 3:27, you can see the “window” going back and forth, and not in circles. It sorta looked like that earlier, before he put the pen through, not as definitely as here, based on how the video cuts were edited.
"If you look at it from above, you will SEE that it's turning around in a circle". What? WHAT???? Those five seconds starting at 2:09, I've watched them about 10 times. It's even weirder that the normal illusion. Please, someone, say it isn't just me.
It'd be interesting to find out whether this is also what someone who has never seen a window would experience. For example, someone from one of those indigenous tribes in the Amazon who don't have contact with modern civilization.
Interesting question. In the beginning he said we are wired to perceive things that are bigger as closer to us. And smaller things as farther away. So their vision would be the same but yeah inWonder if that applies to everything.
it would definitely still work. This illusion isn't how we expect windows to be aligned or shaped, it's that the illusion messes with your brain's expectations of perspective projections by imitating an orthogonal projection. Orthogonal projections don't shrink/grow objects from depth/distance. Our eyes, of course, are perspective and depth-perceiving. This illusion inverts our depth perception.